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don't we go out and look for them? Umm, there was a group at University of Southern California led by a pretty prominent gerontological psychologist named
James Birren kind of initiated a lot of this study and it was one of his graduate students, a woman named Vivian Clayton who lives in Berkeley, umm, who
did the first even faintly empirical studied of wisdom. They were published in 1975. And as I learned, as I started familiarizing myself with this early
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