Retirees this way: college life is no longer just for students
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Retirees this way: college life is no longer just for students
But for those who make the jump, the reward is almost always enormous. In interviewing people for this book, I found that invariably, the people who are happiest and most satisfied in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are those who made this leap. Here are a couple of examples, starting with a fifty-eight-year-old male actuary. Here’s what he t
... See moreArthur C. Brooks • From Strength to Strength
As of 2018, men and women in developed countries are expected to spend nearly 20 years in retirement.5 As the baby boomer generation enters this new life stage, bringing with them unprecedented wealth, health, and energy, they will be looking for new stories about how to live their lives.
Paul Millerd • The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life
new consensus was being formed, a new image of midlife as a time of competence and personal growth, not uncertainty or regression.
Kieran Setiya • Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
It was not until the 1980s that the idea that everyone deserves, and should have, a dignified retirement took hold.
Morgan Housel • The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
Studies find that as people grow older they interact with fewer people and concentrate more on spending time with family and established friends. They focus on being rather than doing and on the present more than the future.
Atul Gawande • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
The old story was populated by such themes as “the golden years,” “life of leisure,” a life without the pressure of time clocks or the demands of work.