Chronologically Gifted: Conversations on Life after 50

Captain Paul Watson has been a lifelong activist and passionate defender of the oceans. He was a founding member and director of Greenpeace until he left in 1977 to found the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society . He serves as its president and executive director. Sea Shepherd is an international non-profit, marine wildlife conservation organization that uses direct action to “expose and confront illegal activities on the high seas.”

In celebration of the fourth anniversary of the show, we are rebroadcasting an interview with Margaret Morganroth Gullette on processing the past election. Margaret is a scholar at the Women’s Research Center at Brandeis University. According to Brandeis website, she is “a cultural critic and prize-winning writer of nonfiction (and) an internationally known age critic, essayist, and activist.” Her latest book is entitled Ending Ageism, or How Not to Shoot Old People (Global Perspectives on Aging

Chronologically Gifted celebrates its fourth anniversary with a look back at some of our favorite interviews. Anne Karpf is a British writer, award-winning journalist, sociologist, scholar, and teacher. Her latest book is How to Age. Anne spoke on the topic of aging while female. She stated, "There is such a degree of age shame and age shaming that goes on in both countries (US and UK)...We have to challenge the language, protesting when people make ageist comments because we internalize that

Chronologically Gifted celebrates its fourth anniversary with a look back at some of our favorite interviews. First up is author Victor Lodato who talked about his cross-generational friendship with a woman named Austin. His piece When Your Greatest Romance Is a Friendship appeared in the New York Times and describes how he met Austin when he was in his 40s, and she was in her 80s. He wrote, "Friendship, like its flashier cousin, love, can be wildly chemical and, like love, can happen in an

Dr. Edith Bone was released in 1956 after seven years of solitary confinement, and her story started Michael Harris’ journey into exploring and practicing solitude. As he read her memoir , he realized that there was “a certain art to being alone that she had practiced…I wanted to learn how to practice solitude in the same way.” Michael is a widely published author who writes about a broad range of topics. His books include The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant

What are three steps to hardwiring happiness in the brain? First, "notice the good facts" as they are happening. Second, "feel something." Third, "take the experience into yourself." Dr. Rick Hanson provides insights into how to go well beyond mindfulness in part two of his interview on Chronologically Gifted. Rick is a co-founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, a Senior Fellow at the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and the author of the New

Dr. Rick Hanson wrote, "...to help our ancestors survive, the brain evolved a negativity bias that makes it like Velcro for bad experiences but Teflon for good ones." Rick is a co-founder of the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, a Senior Fellow at the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and the author of the New York Times bestseller Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence.

Two things surface as being of paramount importance for people at the end of their lives: "people they love and who loved them - and the memories of that - and work they were proud of, work that made a difference, work that was contributory." On Chronologically Gifted this week, Dr. Charles Garfield continues the conversation on happiness, focusing on the deep level meaning of what makes us happy throughout our lives. It may not be what we imagined. Charlie is the founder of Shanti, a widely

How do we live a happy life in this digital age? Dr. Sophie Janicke advises that we "approach our use of technology in a much more aware and meaningful way." Sophie is an assistant professor in the School of Communication at Chapman University. She is described on her website Rewire Happiness as “a positive media psychologist who investigates the role that new and traditional media play in promoting and affecting character development, self-transcendent emotions, prosocial behavior, and well

"It is much more likely that we will be happy if we fulfill our deepest needs, our needs that originate from the heart." Dr. Charles Garfield joins Chronologically Gifted for a two part interview in which he offers his perspective on the pursuit of happiness in our society. He is the founder of Shanti , a widely acclaimed volunteer organization that focuses on increasing quality of life for people with life-threatening illnesses. He is also an author, Clinical Professor of Psychology in the