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And these older people come up to me now and they say, "Mr.

And as I was walking up the steps of this courthouse, there was an older black man who was the janitor in this courthouse.

And finally, this older black man with this very worried look on his face came into the courtroom and sat down behind me, almost at counsel table.

And this deputy jumped up and he ran over to this older black man.

And this older black man stood up and he looked at that deputy and he looked at me and he said, "I came into this courtroom to tell this young man, keep your eyes on the prize, hold on."

Now the average age of our fellows is 28, so I am, begrudgingly, almost a generation older than most of them.

I was constantly being teased by everybody, especially my two older siblings.

They sent my older sister Claire and I to our grandparent's, hoping whatever was happening would blow away.

My older sister Claire, she became a young mother ... and a master at getting things done.

And as you get older, it only gets worse.

So here's the pitch: I think it's important that we don't just get on this freeway to ICU without thinking hard about whether or not that's where we all want to end up, particularly as we become older and increasingly frail and ICU has less and less and less to offer us.

And the longer we live, the more expensive it is to take care of our diseases as we get older.

And you can basically see that the richer a country is, the older the people are within it.

This is an older lady.

And because fertility rates fell across that very same period that life expectancy was going up, that pyramid that has always represented the distribution of age in the population, with many young ones at the bottom winnowed to a tiny peak of older people who make it and survive to old age, is being reshaped into a rectangle.

That's right, older people are happy.

And fewer older people answered affirmatively to that question than middle-aged people, and younger people as well.

We've asked whether it may be that the current generations of older people are and always have been the greatest generations.

That is that younger people today may not typically experience these improvements as they grow older.

We've asked, well, maybe older people are just trying to put a positive spin on an otherwise depressing existence.

And we studied whether and how their emotional experiences changed as they grew older.

Now it's really too simplistic to say that older people are "happy."

And other research has shown that older people seem to engage with sadness more comfortably.

And we suspect that this may help to explain why older people are better than younger people at solving hotly charged emotional conflicts and debates.

Older people can view injustice with compassion, but not despair.

And all things being equal, older people direct their cognitive resources, like attention and memory, to positive information more than negative.

If we show older, middle-aged, younger people images, like the ones you see on the screen, and we later ask them to recall all the images that they can, older people, but not younger people, remember more positive images than negative images.

We've asked older and younger people to view faces in laboratory studies, some frowning, some smiling.

Older people look toward the smiling faces and away from the frowning, angry faces.

We've said, well, maybe older people report more positive emotions because they're cognitively impaired.

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