How to slow down ageing

Sorry, no miracle “elixir of youth” panacea here, simply a though centred on the old leadership idea of the “three-legged stool”.

That idea is around the thought of what is most stable to sit on. When you think about it, the most stable is not a four legged chair, but a three legged stool. If one leg is shorter than the others, the stool is still stable. So, applying that elsewhere, find three things that you need for a platform.

When it comes to ageing, I have met many people some decades older than my 55 years who are highly sharp, vital and energetic. In most cases, this is centred on an intellectual curiosity that drives them to keep an active mind and to keep talking to and listening to other people so they can both learn and share. Without curiosity, though, we can see again and again that we can age mentally fast as we grow older in years.

However, intellectual curiousity is one leg of the stool, but two more are needed to provided that platform that can centre us and keep us ageing relatively slowly.

To me the second leg of the tool is absolutely about the physical. With the caveat of checking what is medically safe first, if you are fit now keep working on being fit to slow down ageing. Stay physically active, including stretching yourself. Raise the heart rate, often, which means more than only walking, or, at the…