Seriously though, I did take a few things from this article including: Nearly seven million Americans have Alzheimer’s disease today, the most common type of dementia, according to the Alzheimer’s

May 7, 2024

It’s our Alumni Homecoming which started in 2019 in San Francisco with more than 200 folks showing up from 50 U.S. cities and 7 countries. We’ll be celebrating again the

May 6, 2024

Ready to play the always-riveting game called “Imagining Your Deathbed Regrets”? Of course you are—there’s no place for surface-level froth here at the Wisdom Well blog, right? No, friend, we’re going deep! Not

May 5, 2024

“You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”– Wayne Gretzky ‍The Modern Elder Academy is many things to people. It creates a forum for ideas and opportunities based on

For many of us, approaching midlife feels a lot like approaching midnight: we’re reduced to a less attractive, more cranky version of ourselves. And, yet, the dawning of midlife offers

May 3, 2024

I recently had a conversation with Ayleen Jung who has been part of the Seoul 50 Plus Foundation since it was created by the local government eight years ago with

May 2, 2024

This recent WSJ article profiling Morris Chang and his Taiwanese chip company TSMC helped to bust the myth that “younger people are just smarter” as Mark Zuckerberg suggested long ago

May 1, 2024

What if your most productive and inspiring years of work are ahead of you? At age 50, after I’d sold my boutique hotel company that I’d run for a quarter

April 29, 2024

In 2022 after a summer of struggling, I found myself navigating one of life’s valleys, grappling with a sense of purposelessness, disconnection, and an overall lack of joy. Unbeknownst to

April 28, 2024

Here is what I knew about menopause before, at age 47, it hit me like a freight train: Hot flashes will cause you to spontaneously break out in sweat as

April 27, 2024

“I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.” ‍- David Bowie As we age, if we’re getting it right, some people will call us bonkers. We learn moral courage,

April 26, 2024

But, the psychologist whom I’m most associated with is Abraham Maslow because of PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow, a 2007 book I channeled as I read

April 25, 2024