Dr. Alan Castel
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I've lived through X, Y, and Z wars, financial meltdowns, you know, changes in family structure, deaths of close people.
And older adults seem to show a lot more resilience here.
And, you know, when I've interviewed people for this book, it's sometimes the most interesting people, you know, live through the Holocaust who are like, I appreciate every day.
I think the best advice I got from one person was like, when you're going up or downstairs, think I'm going up or downstairs.
They're very present, right?
They know if I'm mind wandering or doing something else, something can happen.
So maybe I shouldn't be mind wandering on my bike ride.
Yeah.
I mean, it's just too bad you have to,
I mean, in some ways you have to go through those struggles to realize that, oh, I'm still here or in retrospect, it was bad, but now I'm onto something else.
No, I think there's a memory component to that as well.
And some people have studied this looking at what's called the positivity bias, that as you get older, you're more likely to focus on positive things, positive information, positive events.
But when you're younger, you're more likely to focus on negative things.
And that might be for survival.
It might not benefit your mental health.
But as you say, these are big events that happen when you're 20, 25.
You're like, this is horrible.
How am I ever gonna get through this?
Well, people do.
Look at all these 70, 80-year-olds who've gone through breakups and horrible things that have happened.
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