Dr. Alan Castel
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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I have two daughters and a son and I see them all excelling.
My older daughter is like, wow, her cognitive skills are probably beyond mine in terms of speed of processing.
She might even be a better driver than I am.
You know, she's good at planning things.
My daughter playing piano.
It's like, gosh, if I could have those skills now, how I would practice more.
My son will hurt himself in baseball.
And I'm like, oh, he's out for three weeks.
Three days later, he's pitching again.
And so those are things where it's like, yes, aging sucks in some ways.
I'll be upfront about it.
But I think you appreciate those things as you get 40, 50, 60.
It's like, yeah, that's, you know, it's hard to recover from injuries.
It takes you maybe longer to learn something.
But the things you really do care about, you can use all this kind of knowledge and wisdom and metacognition to focus on kind of what matters the most.
Yeah, I think that's definitely the perspective.
And, you know, this is built on some developmental theories of social, you know, social learning, but also selective optimization with compensation, you know, that
As you get older, maybe you're not going to be doing all these things and scuba diving and hiking, but you'll be like, you know, that one hike I really enjoy, I want to be able to do it once a week.
And so you're still doing the things you like, but you're not doing kind of the wide range of them.
And another related theory is, you know, socio-emotional selectivity theory, Laura Karstensen at Stanford.
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