The Wisdom Years: Unleashing Your Potential in Later Life

by Zvi Lanir

We live longer than ever before. Let this life-changing book show you how to make the most of your ‘wisdom years’. We are now experiencing one of the most significant — but not yet fully understood — revolutions in human the dramatic rise in life expectancy. This revolution does not imply, as most people usually think, that we’ve simply got more years of old age. Rather, it implies the formation of a new period in human the Age of Wisdom. This age is qualitatively different from the adulthood that precedes it and the old age that follows. People who are able to prepare themselves for this new age will be able to enjoy an active, wise and satisfying stage of life, which will enable them to delay their ‘old age’ to the very end of their life. 'The Wisdom Years' provides a practical, thought-provoking and life-changing read for both people embarking on retirement as well as younger people who would like to mindfully prepare themselves in advance. Derived from Dr Lanir’s lifetime of work experience in identifying mindsets that are no longer helpful or relevant to current reality, it reveals how we can reframe our thought processes and mind set so that we can live life based on our ‘functional age’ rather than our ‘chronological age’. The result is a book that carries a unique and inspiring life after retirement is to be enjoyed as a new, exciting and uplifting journey of personal evolution. Zvi Lanir, PhD is the founding president of the Praxis Institute which, for over 30 years, has specialised in various aspects of coping with disruptive change in personal, social, economic and strategic domains. During the past 15 years, Dr Lanir has conducted interdisciplinary research to reveal the gaps between the common knowledge on ageing and the new opportunities for living our advanced years differently. Dr Zvi Lanir is a graduate of the Israel Defense Forces’ Command and Staff College. He has a PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has been a visiting scholar at New York’s Columbia University.

245 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 10, 2019

About the author

Zvi Lanir (צבי לניר) (born October 10, 1936 ) is the founder and president of the Praxis Company and a developer of "The Basic Surprise" theory and its implications for combining thinking and management strategies and author of The Reason of Reason for Late Maturity in Human Life.

Zvi Lanir was born and raised in Haifa and is a graduate of Halutz High School . The military service began as a member of Nahal Nuclear and was sent to the Nuclear Training Corps and then to the Officers Course. He held various commanding positions in combat units and, after completing his position as a company commander in the Golani Brigade , was sent by the IDF for academic studies. After completing his bachelor's degree in political science, economics and sociology at Tel Aviv University, he moved to the Intelligence Corps and served in a number of positions where he was much involved in the theory of Intelligence and under the guidance of intelligence officers, during which he also completed his Master's degree in Military History at Tel Aviv University.

Reviews

[Carmelina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Zvi Lanir's book really resonated with me in that I'm 65 years old but don't feel 'old' per se despite how society views those of us aging in these times of longer longevity.
I feel I will need to read it a couple times more for it all to sink in but feel sure that some if not all is achievable. Who doesn't want the tools to cope well physically, mentally and emotionally as we enter this new stage in our live?

[Moshiktamar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lanier's book The Wisdom Years is well based on broad scientific pieces of evidence. Still, he avoids presenting them in a detached academic language. It is an easily readable book. You won't want to put the book down till its end. However, then you will return to the book again and again to recall its wisdom that will guide you in your advanced age personal life journey.

[Deb Kingston · Rating 4 out of 5]

A small but wise informative book on living in your retirement ‘old age’ to the upmost of your potential by identifying mindsets and thought processes that influence us to live our declining chronological age and not our functional age (the age that you feel inside yourself) which if healthy is usually years younger than your chronological age.

[OFEK · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book!!!

[Agata Lojek · Rating 1 out of 5]

Didn’t like it, I think I’m too young for it lol

[Sharon Robertson · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book challenges the way aging is viewed. Well worth a read in my opinion.