People hit their functional peak around 60, research suggests

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, real quick, Jim, I wanted to end the show
on some interesting news and no bad news for you,
because you're just just a pinch over sixty years old.
But according to study.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Fines, I'm a punch over.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Here. Here's the here's the headline. People hit their functional
peak around sixty.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Yeah, well, so.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Sorry for you, but me, my best days are.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Normally let's just say that.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
So what this basically factoring is, Hey, a lot of
people think when you're younger, you know you're in better
shape to blah blah blah. But when you factor everything in.
So this was a this was an Australian study. It
was like a composite index spanning nine core constructs. When
they put all of them together, they said that your

(00:45):
peak age is sixty years old.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, well I remember sixty. Okay, Yes, I'm sixty six,
and maybe talk to me when i'm seventy five because
I've got I've got so much energy, I'm ready to go.
I'd be on here every day with you. Casey does
a good job.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
You know. It is interesting the things that we learn
about like ourselves, I'm saying ourselves as a humanity, as
ourselves as people, as we get older, and I do
think there is you know, the seventy is the new sixty,
I do think, and it is because people living longer, medicine,
you know better, you know, nutrients, whatever. I do think

(01:24):
that aging has changed. And I do think that getting
old or getting older older is not what it used
to be.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
And I do think. You have a seventy nine year
old president who's running circles around his staff and doesn't
drink alcohol, doesn't smoke, he's taking relativity, good care of
himself and has these long flights, comes back and it
looks like fresh as a daisy out in the rose garden.
And that's a good example of people doing well in

(01:56):
they're older.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Here's a good one. Personality also matures with the age.
Conscientiousness and emotional stability, the two trades must strongly link
to career success and life satisfaction. Both increased from early
adulthood into the fifties and sixties.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Well, Joe hoggs, it's older than I am, and that's
not the case with some.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Well, I didn't say everybody. Okay, it's just an average,
it's just a it's a composite of the collective