Zenior Citizen deals with how individuals can best face the process of aging, especially in the years following middle age. It offers sage advice and insights into finding the startegy that works best for each reader while also promoting an overall recommendation to live life to the fullest, live your life's purpose and take each moment as it comes.
Assis opens his book with a discussion of Zen philosophy and applies those ideas to aging. Zen recommends mindful living in the now and also giving up attachments, and these ideas apply well to facing old age. One of the biggest obstacles for many in coming into the golden years is to give up attachment to youth. By living in the now, moment to moment, individuals find joy in the current moments rather than sorrowing over what has been the way of living in the past.
Assis debunks many myths about aging and also sites studies and statistics dealing with life in the senior years. Understanding the realities of aging rather than the stereotypes ans myths about it helps to accept old age and find greater joy in experiencing it.
Assis further develops some of his ideas through parables, stories of conversations and encounters with people that help develop the ideas of the book more fully. Thus, the book takes on a tone of being a conversation with a friends rather than being a dry tome on "everything you ever wanted to know about aging but were afraid to ask."
In the end, the author's recommendation in eminently sound: Ficus on living the life you have fully and completely rather than holding onto the life you've already lived. Embrace who you are and lie your life's purpose. Don't focus on the impediments to the fullness of life, but rather, embrace the opportunities. And there are really more opportunities in old age than there were earlier in life!
It is a good read, full of good data, sound reasoning and good advice. ( )

Zenior Citizen deals with how individuals can best face the process of aging, especially in the years following middle age. It offers sage advice and insights into finding the startegy that works best for each reader while also promoting an overall recommendation to live life to the fullest, live your life's purpose and take each moment as it comes.
Assis opens his book with a discussion of Zen philosophy and applies those ideas to aging. Zen recommends mindful living in the now and also giving up attachments, and these ideas apply well to facing old age. One of the biggest obstacles for many in coming into the golden years is to give up attachment to youth. By living in the now, moment to moment, individuals find joy in the current moments rather than sorrowing over what has been the way of living in the past.
Assis debunks many myths about aging and also sites studies and statistics dealing with life in the senior years. Understanding the realities of aging rather than the stereotypes ans myths about it helps to accept old age and find greater joy in experiencing it.
Assis further develops some of his ideas through parables, stories of conversations and encounters with people that help develop the ideas of the book more fully. Thus, the book takes on a tone of being a conversation with a friends rather than being a dry tome on "everything you ever wanted to know about aging but were afraid to ask."
In the end, the author's recommendation in eminently sound: Ficus on living the life you have fully and completely rather than holding onto the life you've already lived. Embrace who you are and lie your life's purpose. Don't focus on the impediments to the fullness of life, but rather, embrace the opportunities. And there are really more opportunities in old age than there were earlier in life!
It is a good read, full of good data, sound reasoning and good advice. ( )

Zenior Citizen deals with how individuals can best face the process of aging, especially in the years following middle age. It offers sage advice and insights into finding the startegy that works best for each reader while also promoting an overall recommendation to live life to the fullest, live your life's purpose and take each moment as it comes.
Assis opens his book with a discussion of Zen philosophy and applies those ideas to aging. Zen recommends mindful living in the now and also giving up attachments, and these ideas apply well to facing old age. One of the biggest obstacles for many in coming into the golden years is to give up attachment to youth. By living in the now, moment to moment, individuals find joy in the current moments rather than sorrowing over what has been the way of living in the past.
Assis debunks many myths about aging and also sites studies and statistics dealing with life in the senior years. Understanding the realities of aging rather than the stereotypes ans myths about it helps to accept old age and find greater joy in experiencing it.
Assis further develops some of his ideas through parables, stories of conversations and encounters with people that help develop the ideas of the book more fully. Thus, the book takes on a tone of being a conversation with a friends rather than being a dry tome on "everything you ever wanted to know about aging but were afraid to ask."
In the end, the author's recommendation in eminently sound: Ficus on living the life you have fully and completely rather than holding onto the life you've already lived. Embrace who you are and lie your life's purpose. Don't focus on the impediments to the fullness of life, but rather, embrace the opportunities. And there are really more opportunities in old age than there were earlier in life!
It is a good read, full of good data, sound reasoning and good advice. ( )