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February 27, 2020
“The single most important factor determining the quality of mother-offspring interactions is the mental and physical health of the mother.
The better care the child receives the less likely she is stressed. The less stressed sheis the less likely she will develop Alzheimer.
“These states clearly compromise the interactions between parents and their children,” he says. And, subsequently, they compromise their children’s brain chemistry and resilience in the face of setbacks—even future ones.
Here is an ethical issue company might prefer not to hire people with unhappy family badsground
our choices about how we raise our children in their first years will have a far greater impact on what their last years look like than we might previously have recognized.
most of us experience metabolic changes that mean you can’t just continue eating the same things you’ve always eaten and maintain your weight or your figure. We may become lactose intolerant.
I suddenly became lactose-intolerant at age 45!
Individual differences psychology seeks to both characterize and quantify the thousands of ways that we humans differ from one another. It uses relatively sophisticated mathematical-statistical tools, such as principal components analysis, and seeks to understand not just the ways we differ from one another, but also the roots of these differences.
What decisions can we make, both ahead of time and in the present moment, that will maximize our life satisfaction and infuse our lives with meaning?
when you’re at the end of your life, lying on your deathbed, the research literature strongly predicts you won’t be saying, “I wish I had spent more time on Facebook.” Instead, you’ll probably be saying, “I wish I had spent more time with loved ones,” or, “I wish I had done more to make a difference in the world.”
this book seeks to induce a transformative understanding of the aging process, the final chapter of our human story.
The age that comes up most often as the happiest time of one’s life is eighty-two!
In fact, the biggest single determinant of living a productive and happy life is something that you’re born with (partly) and something that you can decide to change: your personality.
