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• Involvement in a complex and intellectually stimulat-
ing environment
• A flexible personality at midlife

• The high cognitive status of a spouse
• Maintenance of high levels of perceptual processing
speed
This is a huge chapter. This, along with Chapter 7, “En-
joy Your Ageless Mental Agility,” is one of the two big How-
to-Fix-It chapters. You will learn how to use the information
you acquired in the previous chapters to get your body
ready to support an Agile Mind.
You will learn how to implement the changes necessary
to build a brawny brain and understand precisely how these
changes will support an agile brain. So while you are read-
ing, notice which techniques you already use (and congrat-
ulate yourself), pick a few new ideas to incorporate, and
above all else, keep learning! (You’ll know why we said that
later.)