Here and Wow

A researcher described a study involving people who showed physical and cognitive improvements after spending a weekend living as their 20-years-ago selves.

The guy interviewing her had a theory about why it worked—something to do with younger people being focused on the future while older people were “looking in the rear-view mirror.”

We’re what?! I thought, wondering where he got this limiting, speculative idea.

Fortunately, the (older) researcher set him straight, pointing out that, actually, everybody’s here, “in the now.”

Touché,I thought.

And maybe, as I recently saw on a coffee cup, we can all live in the wow.

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