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Enhancing Your Brain As You Age
By Susan Dunn
Enhancing Your Brain As You Age by Susan Dunn, MA, Emotional Intelligence Coach &
Consultant
“The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling
to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot
and takes root, it doesn’t need its brain any more so it eats it! It’s rather like getting tenure.”
~David Dennett, “Consciousness Explained”
And true to form, I have a client who’s a tenured college professor, head of the department, who is
“going out of his mind.” He came to me for coaching because he’s deeply dissatisfied with his life, and
wants to change careers.
Without violating confidentiality, I can say this client is desperate for new experiences, for meaning and
purpose, and for something new in his life. He is “hamstrung” by a high salary and a less-than-30-hour
week with long vacations, but is beginning to see the “price” is not worth it.
Though this gentleman happens to actually be a tenured professor, he is representative of many
clients I have who are 50 or older.
As more Baby Boomers “come of age,” the studies about aging continue to pump in lots of new
information to counteract former stereotypes. Science is discovering that “old” rats given new toys and
new playmates start growing new brain cells, and better brain cells. Imagine!
And, poignantly, this is what the professor laments the most – the fact that he isn’t encouraged, or
allowed, to innovate within the department; a