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This was such a great listen. I was stretching while listening to it, 40 minutes passed... I sat down and watched the rest fully focused and engaged. Normally, I probably wouldn't be. I mostly only find things interesting if the messenger also finds them interesting, and I think she was very much engaged with what she was talking about, making it VERY interesting :)
I'm always running into people in middle age worried about their forgetfulness, and I always say that the things they describe – forgetting why you walked into a room, brain freezes on certain names or terms etc. – are things I've been doing all my life. Glad to get scientific backing for this view.
I think this is the first time I've heard someone talking about a breathing exercise & not saying to exhale through your mouth. I've always found exhaling through my nose more helpful for some reason. (Maybe it just forces me to exhale more slowly.) The nice thing about it, though, is you can do this in public without feeling like you'd be drawing attention like you might be if you're closing and opening your mouth rhythmically.
Great breakdown and discussion, I've known a couple of older folks with this disease, and they were basically sedentary and change-averse. My grandmother was active, curious about the world and always trying new things, and a glass-half-full type of lady. I'm trying to follow her example.
Thanks for interesting content. Also, as a foreign language speaker, I especially noticed how easy it was to listen and understand her talk. I guess it has something to do with her articulation in relation to the speed and also the facial gestures that supported. This does not happen often, folks!
I one went travelling, for months, without a camera. Doing so many that I was paying full attention where I was and what i was doing. Also, photos alter your memory and diminish the richness of memories, until the photo becomes all that you have.
I still remember that trip so will and can write a detailed narrative. Writing it out probably alters the memory too.
The forced insert ad for Axios on these videos is so colossally frustrating.
It always interrupts the speaker mid-sentence, it's unskippable, can't be sped up, and if you finish it and go back to try and hear the video part it cut off, it'll just re-trigger and force you to watch it again.
On top of that — it breaks subsequent ads afterwards to play unskippably, AND fails to restart the video when they end, and makes you close and re-open the video… which re-triggers the ads again.
Whoever implemented this feature needs to pull it from production until you can actually get some decent QA done on it. This honestly makes the plague of early 2000's pop-up ads feel tame by comparison to how utterly obnoxious these have become on this platform.
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I still remember that trip so will and can write a detailed narrative. Writing it out probably alters the memory too.
It always interrupts the speaker mid-sentence, it's unskippable, can't be sped up, and if you finish it and go back to try and hear the video part it cut off, it'll just re-trigger and force you to watch it again.
On top of that — it breaks subsequent ads afterwards to play unskippably, AND fails to restart the video when they end, and makes you close and re-open the video… which re-triggers the ads again.
Whoever implemented this feature needs to pull it from production until you can actually get some decent QA done on it. This honestly makes the plague of early 2000's pop-up ads feel tame by comparison to how utterly obnoxious these have become on this platform.