(3 articles) The Curious Personality Changes of Older Age | 3 Data-Backed Steps to Figuring Out What to Do With Your Life | Ursula K. Le Guin on Anger

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You Might Like � � � You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium The Curious Personality Changes of Older Age    You’ve probably heard the saying “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.” An awful phrase, I know, but it speaks to a common belief about older adulthood: that it’s a time of stagnation. A time when we’ve become so set in our ways that, whether we’re proud of them or not, we’re not likely to budge. Psychologists used to follow the same line of thinking: After young adulthood, people tend to settle into themselves, and personality, though not immutable, usually becomes stabler as people age. And that’s true—until a certain point. More recent studies suggest that something unexpected happens to many people as they reach and pass their 60s: Their personality starts changing again. This trend is probably observed in older populations in part because older adults are more likely to experience brain changes such as cognitive impairment and dementia. But some researchers don’t believe the phenomenon is fully explained by those factors. People’s personality can morph in response to their circumstances, helping them shift priorities, come to terms with loss, and acclimate to a changing life. These developments illuminate what personality really is: not a permanent state but an adaptive way of being. And on a societal level, personality changes might tell us something about the conditions that older adults face. Continued here 3 Data-Backed Steps to Figuring Out What to Do With Your Life    Practically from the moment you start talking, you’re asked this question. As a child, you’re encouraged to make decisions about school subjects, activities, and higher education, all in pursuit of a future career. These decisions, which have major repercussions for how the rest of your life will unfold, are often hastily made. Career advice can be challenging to navigate and tends to focus on “moments of choice”: those crucial transition points at which you need to make career decisions, such as when leaving secondary school. Continued here You Might Like � � � � � � � � � Ursula K. Le Guin on Anger    The poet May Sarton experienced anger as “a huge creative urge gone into reverse.” Philosopher Martha Nussbaum has argued that it is often “an alluring substitute for grieving,” granting us the illusion of agency in situations that bereave of us of control. Poet and philosopher David Whyte pulled on anger’s weft thread to reclaim it as “the deepest form of compassion.” But anger, like silence, is of many kinds and thunders across a vast landscape of contexts, most of its storms ruinous, and some, just maybe, redemptive. That is what the sharp-minded, large-spirited, incomparably brilliant Ursula K. Le Guin examines in an essay titled “About Anger,” found in her altogether fantastic nonfiction collection No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters (public library). Le Guin begins with a case study in the cultural history of anger as a tool of social change — epoch-making change she lived through and helped engender: Continued here

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