When I was in my early thirties, I picked up a Reader’s Digest in the waiting room of a doctor’s office. It was on the last page that I read a promise I would hang onto for decades: it simply stated that the Japanese believe a person’s seventies are their most creative years. Assuming this idea was universal, and everyone was eligible, I determined to see for myself if the Japanese were correct on the matter of aging. I had almost 40 years to get ready!
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