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The Midlife Crisis
in our culture, we call a midlife crisis. The person experiencing the crisis might sensibly conclude that his unhappiness is the result of wanting the wrong things. In all too many cases, though, he doesn’t draw this conclusion; instead, he concludes that he is unhappy as the result of making certain short-term sacrifices to attain various long-ter
... See moreWilliam B. Irvine • A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
Transitioning a career to think more about purpose is a typical evolution many people find mid-career (or at least it was for me). You could define mid-life as the transition to deeper purpose – society is clear that you should establish your mastery of something in your 20’s and 30s; it’s less clear what to do with it in your 40’s and 50’s (hence ... See more
adam harmetz • Finding Purpose in Tech Careers: The Explorer, the Journeyman, and the Healer
Tom So added
Call it the first rule for preventing a midlife crisis: you have to care about something other than yourself.
Kieran Setiya • Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
How self-indulgent is the midlife crisis, a hardship it is a luxury to live through?
Kieran Setiya • Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
There are distinctive problems that arise from the temporality of midlife, from our multiple orientations to the past and the future, from our relation to unrealized possibilities or counterfactuals, from the scale of life and of the projects that occupy it.
Kieran Setiya • Midlife: A Philosophical Guide
Patricia Mou and added
As Setiya recalls in his book Midlife, he was heading towards the age of forty when he first began to feel a creeping sense of emptiness, which he would later come to understand as the result of living a project-driven life, crammed not with atelic activities but telic ones, the primary purpose of which was to have them done, and to have achieved c
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
As Setiya recalls in his book Midlife, he was heading towards the age of forty when he first began to feel a creeping sense of emptiness, which he would later come to understand as the result of living a project-driven life, crammed not with atelic activities but telic ones, the primary purpose of which was to have them done, and to have achieved c
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