McCall McPherson and Speaker B debunk the myth that a woman's best years are behind her. Harvard professor Andrew Brooks distinguishes fluid intelligence, which peaks early, from crystallized intelligence, which grows later. The 50s and beyond bring exponential growth and fulfillment.
Tell me what you feel like the biggest lie women face in midlife is.
Along the same lines that your best years are behind you. I just simply don't believe that's true. We've inherited this narrative and it's a myth and it's up to us now to change it, right? It's not about decline. There's a Harvard professor, I think it's Andrew Brooks, who wrote a book, From Strength to Strength. In his books, he talks about how the first half of our life is about fluid intelligence. And then the second part of our life is about crystallized intelligence. And this is where we use our wisdom and perspective just to create a deeper impact and grow in ways that we never thought possible. So the second half of looking pretty good.
I totally agree. I always say our 20s are for exploring what we'd love to do and what we're passionate about. Our 30s are about like honing that skill and craft. Our 40s is where we're sailing and enjoying it and really feeling confident in our skills. And our 50s is just even and beyond, is exponentiates That, which is incredibly rewarding.
I have a lovely friend in Dr. Tamsin Lewis who actually was a, like, a Great Britain triathlete. She won Ironman, I don't know how many times. She's a psychiatrist and longevity expert, and she now talks about bioharmony, not biohacking, because hacking and everything up until now has felt really unsustainable to me. But I think what you're trying to do, what I'm trying to do in educating women on sustainable change, the anti-perfection, anti-optimization, Messaging is waning, which is really good. And if we start with the basics, right? Eat well, move your body, sleep. Not easy, but if you start there, after that, then you can have fun. Then you can start optimizing, but then you can play a little bit. That's my view. I think that conversation is changing a little bit around sustainable lifestyle change.
