Review for The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older : This book is incredible, I have never been so frightened reading a book and yet so riveted that I couldn't stop reading. I loved this book. It grabbed me from the first page and I had trouble putting it down. Read it, you won't be disappointed.
The Wisdom Paradox: How Your Mind Can Grow Stronger As Your Brain Grows Older info
A provocative look at how new research is highlighting the emerging powers of the aging mind In The Wisdom Paradox, world-renowned neuropsychologist Elkhonon Goldberg argues that though some mental abilities (such as recent-memory recall) decline as the mind enters the "autumn season" of our life span, the brain becomes more powerful in its ability to recognize patterns. As a result, we are able to make decisions at more intuitive and effective levels-a late-emerging mental strength he terms "wisdom." In lively, accessible prose, Goldberg delves into the mechanisms of the mind, outlining how the elegant structures of the brain develop and change over the course of a lifetime as they work increasingly in concert. Drawing on recent and hi
