Half Time by Bob Buford – Quotes

“Fifteen years ago I began recording my thoughts about something that happened in my life. Instead of facing a crisis as I approached middle age, I discovered that a new and better life lay before me" (p: 11).

“Drucker’s books fill three bookshelves at Claremont Graduate University; as a Claremont friend of mine pointed out, ‘Notice that his writings before age sixty-five sit on one shelf and his writings after sixty-five require two shelves’ ” (In the Preface by Jim Collins, p: 16).

Habituation and the Human Brain

I was struck by a new piece of research that says that you indulge and overcome binging! ... indulge mentally. Sounds interesting, doesn’t it? According to an article by Carnegie Mellon University researchers Moorewedge and others in Science (10 Dec 2010) the brain has a unique ability to habituate itself to a stimulus that it has only imagined. What this means, for instance, is that by imagining eating, it is possible to control hunger.  In other words, the power of the mind has the ability to tame the body impulses; mastery over our impulses.

I am wondering who else can do this better than those in the second half of their lives.  And with the impulses reined in, the older people have a greater chance to be freer of extrinsic reasons for happiness!!  And isn’t that the real freedom we are all seeking!!