Successful Aging
A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
SILVER MEDALIST for the 2022 Axiom Business Book Award for Success/Motivation/Coaching
SHORTLISTED for the 2021 Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Award
Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age, why we should think about health span, not life span, and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence, what you can do to make the most of your seventies, eighties, and nineties today no matter how old you are now.
Successful Aging uses research from developmental neuroscience and the psychology of individual differences to show that sixty-plus years is a unique developmental stage that,…