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Life Lessons About Time: What the Elderly Say They Wish They Had Known

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Life Lessons About Time From Elderly

The life lessons about time from elderly people are not what most people expect to hear. They are not about urgency, and they are not about doing more. What the very old say, consistently and across very different lives, is that time accelerated in ways they had not anticipated, and that the moments they wish … Read more

Life Lessons From the Elderly: What Long Experience Actually Teaches

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Life Lessons From Elderly

Most of what circulates as “elderly wisdom” online is a curated collection of feel-good quotes, selected for how well they photograph over a sunset. What older people actually say, when someone bothers to ask them systematically, is different, and in some ways more surprising. Karl Pillemer, a gerontologist at Cornell University, spent years collecting the … Read more