Interview with Darcia Helle

Saylor:

If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the mind or

body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you

want?

Darcia:

This is a difficult question. My initial thought was that I’d like to retain my

mind. But, as I consider that, I realize that my mind became a much calmer

place in my forties and now early fifties than it was in my thirties. So

retaining the mind of a 30-year-old would mean not gaining the insight,

confidence, and peac...