1. Looking at children and seniors as not just two opposite ends of the spectrum but actually two groups with much in common.
2. The first five years of life are when we soak up and learn everything, adulthood is spent trying to put all this information together, and then later in life it starts to unravel and can be analyzed—>wisdom
3. Moments of intense stress (cortisol?) may be productive in the short term, but we need to realize this isn’t actually the most efficient long-term strategy. Information needs to be digested.
4. Emotional intelligence. Understanding your own emotional state so you can begin to understand it in others. I thought it was extremely interesting that the Susan talks about emotions almost exclusively in physiological terms.
5. Related to number 4. Asking nursing students “who are you thinking about when you go into a patient’s room?”
6. Art can be very therapeutic for people with emotional turmoil, Clinical Depression.
7. The veil story as an example of humans’ impressive and absolutely necessary ability to deal with stress.
8. Some older people have a calm/settled feeling to them. we can learn from that. Some youth have excitement/optimism and enthusiasm… that can be infectious.