As you get older, learning often feels harder than it used to. Why is that? What changes in the brain as we age that makes acquiring new information harder? Is there anything we can do to avoid our minds slowing down?<\/p>\n
This is a topic I\u2019ve been asked about a lot, but until recently one that I didn\u2019t know much about. Aging wasn\u2019t a topic I spent much time researching in my book, preferring to focus on principles of learning that are universal.<\/p>\n
Recently, however, I decided to dig into some of the research on cognitive aging to see how our learning is impacted by getting older.<\/p>\n