At the time of this writing, in the fall of 2009, I am 56 years of age.  I start with that because this is an age where people wrestle with thoughts about whether or not they are getting old.  One half of the equation is that age is a state of mind, yet as an educator, I think the other half has to do with whether or not we keep learning.  Fortunately for those of us who want to stay young, or reinvent part of our lives, neuroscience, transformation and creativity have ideas we can work with. I will take them one at a time: Neuroscience The message from neuroscience is our brains are designed for flexibility. interested? Follow the Read More Link

A discussion of "what fires together wires together" and other aspects of brain plasticity.  Norman Doidge is academic, and therefore this is a bit dense.  Nevertheless the ideas are superb and worth thinking about.