
Flourish As You Age
BRAIN HEALTH
MENTAL MANAGEMENT
A GOOD DEATH
Let's not just fade away; let's FLOURISH as we age!
The MINDRAMP Podcasts focus on three key components that have been shown to contribute to flourishing in the later years of your life. You will find mini-series of episodes that explore each component.
1) Keeping your brain and body healthy - see The Roots of Brain Health
2) Managing your mental states - see Flourishing
3) Planning the kind of death you want to have - (coming 10/1/24))
You will also find the occasional episodes that focus social concerns that I feel have an impact on our well-being, for example "Elections."
Podcasting since 2020 • 204 episodes
Flourish As You Age
Latest Episodes
Welcoming Wisdom #10 - Working Memory: The Whiteboard of Consciousness
In this episode of Flourish As You Age, Michael C. Patterson explores working memory, the fragile mental workspace where consciousness itself takes shape. Think of it as the virtual whiteboard of the mind—a place where perceptions and ...
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Season 6
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Episode 10
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16:31

Welcoming Wisdom #9 - The Kluge Within: Navigating the Accidental Mind
In this episode of Flourish As You Age, Michael C. Patterson explores the “accidental mind”—not a perfectly engineered machine, but a brilliant kluge (pronounced klooj): an evolutionary patchwork that works despite its ...
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Season 6
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Episode 9
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11:13

Welcoming Wisdom #8 - Mature Creativity
In this episode, Michael C. Patterson traces the creative landscape of later life — from Dr. Gene Cohen’s groundbreaking research on creative aging, to Twyla Tharp’s fierce manifesto for movement, to the wide horizons of Georgia O’Keeffe’s ...
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Season 6
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Episode 8
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15:51

Welcoming Wisdom #7 - Developmental Intelligence: The Super Power of the Mature Mind
In this episode, host Michael C. Patterson explores Dr. Gene Cohen’s groundbreaking concept of developmental intelligence—the idea that our minds can continue growing in complexity, depth, and wisdom throughout life. Drawing on Cohen’s...
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Season 6
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Episode 6
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18:16

Welcoming Wisdom #6 - Mature Minds and the Sky Above Clouds
In this episode of Flourish As You Age, host Michael C. Patterson explores the often-overlooked strengths of the mature mind. Drawing from his upcoming book Welcoming Wisdom, he challenges the myth of inevitable cogni...
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Season 6
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Episode 5
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10:28
