Unlike our knees and hips, our brains improve with age. This dialogue includes: neuroplasticity, how improving our brain power can prevent Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia, why optimism is good for the brain and enhances resilience, the benefits of challenging the brain to do something new, the benefits of meditation on the brain. 
Michael Gelb, Ph.D. is a leading world authority on the application of genius thinking to personal and organizational development. A pioneer in the fields of creative thinking, accelerated learning, and innovative leadership, Gelb leads seminars for organizations such as DuPont, Merck, Microsoft, Nike and many others. He is the author of Innovate Like Edison: The Success System of America’s Greatest Inventor (co-author Sarah Miller Caldicott) (Dutton 2007), How To Think Like Leonardo da Vinci (Dell 2000), and Brain Power: Improve Your Mind as You Age (co-author Kelly Howell) (New World Library 2012).
Date recorded: 2/20/2012       Tags: Michael J. Gelb, Michael Gelb, aging, Alzheimer's, brain, dementia, meditation, mental powers, mind, naps, wine, brain power, neuroplasticity, neurogenesis, optimism, pessimism, optimistic, pessimistic, humor, rewiring your brain, brain grooves, hemisinc, Mozart effect, binaural training, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, brain-sync, brain sync, Business, Health & Healing, Personal Transformation, Science