Your Third Third

The Staircase of the Mind

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We've all had the moment. Standing in a doorway, phone in hand, no earthly idea why we're there. At 30, that's a punchline. At nearly 60, it feels like something else entirely.

This episode starts there and ends somewhere more hopeful than you might expect.

Stanford researchers found something surprising: the brain doesn't age in a slow, steady decline. It ages in three distinct jumps, a…