#socioemotional-selectivity

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Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

Psychology says people who become harder to be around as they get older aren't becoming more miserable - they're becoming less willing to absorb other people's discomfort at the expense of their own - Silicon Canals

Older adults prioritize emotionally meaningful relationships, leading to smaller social circles and active pruning of less fulfilling connections.
fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago
Wellness

8 unexpected blessings about aging only people over 70 will understand - Silicon Canals

People over seventy often experience liberation: freedom from others' judgments, clearer priorities, and unexpected peace that reshapes common expectations about aging.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

Psychology says people who become harder to be around as they get older aren't becoming more miserable - they're becoming less willing to absorb other people's discomfort at the expense of their own - Silicon Canals

Older adults prioritize emotionally meaningful relationships, leading to smaller social circles and active pruning of less fulfilling connections.
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fromSilicon Canals
1 month ago

I thought retirement meant freedom but what I found instead was a mirror, and what was looking back at me was a person I'd been avoiding for forty years - Silicon Canals

The coffee tastes the same at 7 AM on a Tuesday as it does on a Saturday. I learned this my second week of retirement. I was trying to convince myself that there was magic in unstructured mornings-no rush, no agenda, just me and the coffee and some vague sense of possibility. But magic requires you to be present, and I was doing everything I could not to be.
Mindfulness
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