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clever or wise

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“We have come as far as we have because we are the cleverest creatures to have ever lived on Earth. But if we are to continue to exist, we will require more than intelligence. We will require wisdom."
– David Attenborough

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Living Life

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Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at first, narrowly contained within its banks, and rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider, the banks recede, the waters flow more quietly, and in the end, without any visible break, they become merged in the sea, and painlessly lose their individual being. – Bertrand Russell

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Gemini Can Be A Great Wordsmith

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I gave Gemini the prompt: “Take the following sentence and turn it into a catchy memorable phrase.

Don’t waste money on travel to Mars. Instead, give more money to medical research.”

and it gave me back the following.

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Here are a few ways to rewrite that, depending on the “vibe” you’re going for:

The Punchy One-Liner

“Fix the humans before we find the Martians.”

Short & Rhythmic

“Better lives, not better rockets.”

Action-Oriented

“Invest in the breath of life, not the vacuum of space.”

A Bit Witty

“Let’s cure the Earth before we colonize the stars.”

My Personal Favorite:

“Don’t fund a flight to a dead planet—fund the fight for a living one.”

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Rejuvenating Your Brain

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  1. Don’t retire. Don’t stop being engaged with meaningful work.
  2. Look forward. Don’t look back. (Reminiscing doesn’t promote health).
  3. Exercise. Get your heart rate going. Preferably in nature.
  4. Embrace a moderated lifestyle with healthy practices.
  5. Keep your social circle exciting and new.
  6. Spend time with people younger than you.
  7. See your doctor regularly, but not obsessively.
  8. Don’t think of yourself as old (other than taking prudent precautions).
  9. Appreciate your cognitive strengths — pattern recognition, crystallized intelligence, wisdom, accumulated knowledge.
  10. Promote cognitive health through experimental learning: traveling, spending time with grandchildren, and immersing yourself in a new activities and situations. Do new things.

from the book “Successful Aging” by Daniel J. Levitin