Are you spending too much time looking in the rearview mirror? There’s an obvious reason why the windshield in our car is bigger than the rearview mirror. How about the windshield of our life? I’m afraid that the rearview mirror gets bigger in the second half of life...

I’m grateful to Christine Sperber, a co-founder of the Modern Elder Academy, for introducing me to the concept of moral beauty, a term that she learned from Dacher Keltner, professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Moral Beauty in its simplest...