An excellent book, here the UK Amazon link, I’m not sure about the American plans. The subtitle is What Latecomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life.
Here is an excerpt:
This showed that processing speed (matching numbers and symbols) peaks much earlier than working memory (unknown shapes and reciting lists of numbers). These are two aspects of fluid intelligence, but they peak at different times. The idea that fluid intelligence is one thing and declines early is not entirely accurate. There are many aspects to intelligence and they peak at different ages in our lives. The study authors state: “Not only is there no age at which humans are at their peak performance in all cognitive tasks, but there may be no age at which humans are at their peak performance in all cognitive tasks. most cognitive tasks.
One of the best books written on talent. Here is a thread by Dan Rothschild about the book. Dan writes: “…this is not a self-help book per se. But it provides an exceptional context for thinking about aging, talent and the search for purpose in life, through the lives of people who have led extraordinary lives in unpredictable ways. Here is Henry Oliver on Twitter.
