Combating or reversing the effects of aging, and achieving excellence

I have seen or heard similar in different sources (for example, the discussion of myelin in the talent code), but in the Washington Post today there was an article on combating the effects of aging http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/the-aging-brain/2011/12/05/gIQAskhDWO_graphic.html .  As I look at people over the age of 60 that I know, the ones who are the most healthy are extremely active, either continuing to work, writing books, volunteering for non-profit program, proposing new projects, learning new languages and exercising regularly....what I read in this article continues to confirm what I have heard all along.  For those who work virtually, it is important to maintain a network outside of a daily skype call, etc. on a regular basis.


In a proactive way, the following link the discusses myelin, and the importance of its development in achieving excellence  http://thetalentcode.com/myelin/ .  This is the flip side of the post article, in that at young ages, stimulating development of myelin is a key factor in achieving elite status in an activity.  You can obviously see how the two are linked, and how they are also linked to the work that we do in creativity and achieving high performance.