The Investment Scientist

If you are like me, (I’m in my mid-50s), please take my message to heart: start investing in your brain health because doing so will pay huge dividends.

It’s in our 50’s when our cognitive ability usually begins to decline. If we don’t intervene, this decline will only accelerate as we age. One consequence of cognitive decline is that we become prone to making stupid financial mistakes that can cost us a lot of money! I have seen this happen with my clients, my clients’ parents, and even my own parents. The total amount lost is in the millions. The parents of one of my clients lost their entire life savings to scams. They lost half ten years ago to an email scam. One would have thought they had learned their lesson. No, just this year, they lost the remainder to a telephone scam. 

Luckily, this decline is not inevitable. Our brain is like our other muscles, the more we exercise  it, the more we maintain, even build up, its strength and power. Here are a few things I have done in the last few years to exercise my brain: