Despite the hype about losing millions of brain cells as we age (not true, says Strauch) and the all-too-real senior moments, middle-aged minds are better able "to make accurate judgments about people, about jobs, and about finances about the world around us.
Even as we ventured outside our comfort zones, though, our middle-aged mind-sets sometimes surfaced.
This isn't very nice, but it's exactly the way the middle-aged mind operates: après moi, le déluge, as Louis XVI's granddad once put it.
But by the time I got to these, I had already caught myself being a little more persistent, weighing consequences more purposefully and pushing my middle-aged mind to wrap itself around old problems in new ways.
That sense of wonder, together with the vertigo that rapid change prompts in the middle-aged mind, filled the House of Lords debate on the 25th anniversary of the world wide web, initiated by Baroness (Martha) Lane-Fox last week.
He is middle aged, in good health.
All men, mostly middle aged.
Ahhh the pleasures of middle aged dating!
A middle aged sounding guy picked-up.
It's usually middle aged adults.
She is a middle aged woman.
