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With age comes knowledge. We become sensible enough to understand that we can't do some of the things we did so well whenever we were young. The beloved comedian George Melts away said it quite eloquently, "I can do anything at 80 that I possibly could do whenever i was 20. That provides you a concept of what bad shape I was in at 20." Self-help catalogs offer stable, beneficial techniques, but they really only benefit the young. Award-winning comedy copy writer Gene Perret reveals that older devotees must change these techniques, tweak them, alter them, and in some cases, dismiss them completely. New Tricks for Old Dogs points out some of the imperfections in the self-help beliefs. It tempers the advice with common sense. The challenge cry of the volume is do it, but don't overdo it. Sometimes, directly after we reach a certain age, the best workout program is a good, brisk nap.
