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How couples navigate changing learning abilities in midlife

My wife and I are both trying to understand how we learn best as we age — she's 52, I'm 48 — but every conversation about memory, focus, or trying new approaches becomes loaded with our fears about cognitive decline and we end up avoiding the topic entirely.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Fear of cognitive aging is preventing two people from openly exploring and adapting their learning processes together.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Learning to learn — meta-cognition?”

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