Are you under-estimating your brain?

In a book called "The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Brain," Barbara Strauch reveals that the latest research shows that the human brain hits its prime between a person's early thirties and late 60's (hooray!). Apparently we use a larger portion of our brain as we get older. She says this should get us to re-think the current practice of telling people to get out of the way at 62 to 65 and appreciate that the combination of life experience and brain power of people at that age may actually make them more valuable than they were when they were starting their careers.
ACTION: A lot of how well we function is based on self-perception. If we expect to decline in or after middle-age we look for signs of it, and when that's the filter we're using, we'll see them. That in turn can have a negative effect on our behaviour - and soon decline becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. If you're in that age group, see your brain as (to use the author's words) "ripe, ready, and whole."

Thanks (as always) to Jurgen Wolff 's MAY 2010 BRAINSTORM & FOCUS E-BULLETIN http://www.timetowrite.blogs.com/