Tag: Younger

In 1979, a Harvard psychologist named Ellen Langer took eight men in their late 70s to a retreat house redecorated exactly like 1959 — old magazines, radio broadcasts, and furniture — and asked them to live as their younger selves for a week, and by the end their eyesight, hearing, memory, and grip strength had measurably improved
The hardest thing to explain to younger generations about growing up in the 1960s and 1970s isn’t the lack of technology — it’s the specific quality of unsupervised time, the slow afternoons, the boredom that produced things, the freedom that came with no adult tracking your location — and most of those conditions have been correctly retired, but the people they produced are unlikely to be replicated
There’s a specific kind of person who has always been good at solitude — the kind who reads, walks, gardens, thinks — and the world spent their younger years asking them why they weren’t more social, and now those same people are aging into the version of life that quietly suits them, and the loneliness epidemic everyone is naming is mostly happening to other people
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