{"product_id":"lighter-as-we-go-virtues-character-strengths-and-aging-3","title":"Lighter as We Go: Virtues, Character Strengths, and Aging","description":"The fears of aging have been one long cascading domino effect through the years: twenty year-olds dread thirty; forty year-olds fear fifty; sixty fears seventy, and so it goes. And there is something to worry about, though it isn't what you'd expect: research shows that having a bad attitude toward aging when we're young is associated with poorer health when we're older.\n\nThese worries tend to peak in midlife; but in Lighter as We Go, Mindy Greenstein and Jimmie Holland show us that, contrary to common wisdom, our sense of well-being actually increases with our age--often even in the presence of illness or disability. For the first time, Greenstein and Holland--on a joint venture between an 85 year-old and a fifty year-old--explore positive psychology concepts of character strengths and virtues to unveil how and why, through the course of a lifetime, we learn who we are as we go. Drawing from the authors' own personal, intergenerational friendship, as well as a broad array of research from many different areas--including social psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, humanities, psychiatry, and gerontology--Lighter as We Go introduces compassion, justice, community, and culture to help calm our cascading fears of aging.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0199360952\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.0199360952.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Greenstein, Mindy|Holland, Jimmie\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in good condition with very minimal damage. Pages may have minimal notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47711484510385,"sku":"RDV.0199360952.G","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/0199360952-0_e21cc416-bf5f-4ef6-ae65-9f38b877a753.jpg?v=1784154956","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/lighter-as-we-go-virtues-character-strengths-and-aging-3","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}