Martín Escobari
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's not just that we call in rich or we get tired or we develop new interest.
I think our brain ages and stops being plastic.
One of the great learnings from beautiful mind Dave Hodgson, whose age beautifully is in his late 60s and is very sharp and very much on top of the new trends, he defies the convention.
And I said, what is the secret?
And he said three things.
The most important one is I refuse to think like an old man.
My mind still plays.
I still wonder.
I'm still in awe.
And I don't fall into the trap of thinking I have the answer to everything.
I'm always learning, experimenting and playing.
And that's the hardest part.
Because we have this illusion as we get older that there's no room for play.
There's no room for play.
There's always room for play.
How do you inject that into your life?
You just don't take yourself too seriously.
I'm always laughing about everything, making fun of everything.
Even when confronted with war's perfect storm where something happens, I start laughing and I say, what are the odds so many bad things could happen all at once?
Let's work through it.