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I wanted to fly a gyrocopter – so I learned how to, at 57
Could I, at 57 years old, learn something new? I wasn’t young, but wasn’t old either – so it was the perfect leap to take
A few months ago, I asked myself what seemed at the time a simple question: could I, at 57 years old, learn something new? It had been a long time since I had set my mind to a set of really immersive new skills.
I had been mulling a certain skill for a while. It wasn’t completely foreign, yet would still require some large neural resets and challenges – some good old psychological disequilibrium.
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No matter how I tried, I couldn’t get my stepchildren to accept me. So I stopped | Lucretia Grindle Lutyens
Being left out of family events, sending gifts that went unacknowledged – I took it all so personally, until I realised it wasn’t my problem. I was older when I married – 38. Well, it seemed like “older” then. I had never particularly wanted kids. ...The Guardian - World -
‘I don’t want to end up with stalkers’: Should I tell my heirs that I’m writing a will and how much they can expect to inherit?
“Should I even let them know that there is a will in which they are mentioned?”MarketWatch - Business -
I Couldn't Escape Poison Oak. So I Started Eating It.
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‘My goal is to become a millionaire before leaving this world’: I’m retired and in my 70s. I have $768,000, but want $1 million. How do I achieve that?
“When I was young, I did not invest much for it to amount to anything, and then I had to use what I had saved.”MarketWatch - Business -
How I Met My Father
“What took you so long?” he said.The New York Times - Lifestyle -
I spent years studying American communism. Here’s what I learned | Maurice Isserman
I was struck by the mystery of why so many intelligent and admirable people remained so loyal for so long to a fundamentally flawed movement. I’ll leave it to future historians to puzzle out the reasons why, but in the second decade of the 21st ...The Guardian - World -
Keep forgetting things? Worried about your brain? Here’s what I learned when I had mine scanned
From dementia to mild cognitive impairment, it’s easy to be terrified of what ageing will do our minds. But the vast majority of us can reduce the danger – especially if we look after our bodies. Like a lot of people who are getting on, I find ...The Guardian - World -
I haven’t tried Ozempic but I know how it feels | Megan Nolan
Our desires are an essential part of who we are – as I discovered when I lost my appetite for six months. Mostly, walking down New York streets in spring sunshine is the cinematic, euphoric ideal of what it is to be alive. It’s the thing I looked ...The Guardian - World -
Toronto homes are unaffordable, so I bought a houseboat for $250K—it's 'the best decision I ever made'
Real estate in Toronto was unaffordable for Kate Fincham till she found a houseboat: Now "I spend my summers going for sunrise kayaks and picnics at the beach."CNBC - Business -
Steve Wozniak: When I die, these are the moments I want to remember—they don't involve co-founding Apple
Your accomplishments won't make you happy in the end, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said in a recent commencement speech. Here's what he says matters more.CNBC - Business
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