I recently read a book so interesting I read it twice. What Makes You Tick, the Brain in Plain English, reveals the stunning advances in our knowledge of how the brain works. So I was particularly interested in this article in Harvard Business Review about how the 40 to mid 60 year-old brains arrive at solutions faster, have better judgment and inductive reasoning than they did when they were younger.
Author Barbara Strauch recognizes the loss of some short term memory and slower processing speeds but says the offset is better seeing possibilities and quicker problem resolution due to focus and trained neural pathways.
She is a deputy science editor and health and medical science editor at The New York Times and author of The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle-Aged Mind (Viking), coming out in April.
