Mind over Matter

"Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter."

- Satchel Paige

You’re Only as Old as You Feel

Simply asking people how old they feel may tell you a lot about their health and well-being.

Good read in The New York Times

"...people possess intuitive information about their physical abilities, mental sharpness and emotional stability, all of which gets distilled into a single meaningful number.

But critics assert that for many, subjective age simply reflects cultural obsessions with youth. People cultivate a younger identity to fend off stereotypes of frailty and senility."

"If old age weren’t negatively valued, you wouldn’t have the need to say that you feel younger."
~ David Weiss, a life span psychologist at the University of Leipzig