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Why You Should Start Living in the Past
What we’re mostly doing at this time in our lives, then, is looking for a story to draw together the messy fragments of everything that’s happened to us and defined us up until now. We need to transform the story we tell about ourselves, to find a story in which we have more agency – and more purpose. The problem is that, in the culture we currentl... See more
Dr Sharon Blackie • The psychology of midlife
Sara Campbell added
What if life is like a story and you and I are in the theater of our own minds, looking out the cameras of our eyes, and the story unfolding feels either meaningful or meaningless based on what we decide to make happen in it? And what if, if we trust fate to write our stories, it feels meaningless, but if we accept our own agency and structure our
... See moreDonald Miller • Hero on a Mission: A Path to a Meaningful Life
If what you care about most of all is that your life have a certain arc, then in travelling along that arc you are moving towards a point at which the arc is complete and your purpose is lost. If you are telling the story of your life, and you hope to avoid the midlife crisis, better not to tell a story of this kind.
In effect, I am urging a philoso
... See moreKieran Setiya • The Midlife Crisis
Ashley Zhang added
a considered life is one in which we deeply engage with our own story. That means we need to identify what our story is and then know how to move it forward. If we don’t – if we swing between pain and boredom, or merely defy those who would dare to tell us what to do – we shut off important channels of development (and, therefore, life).
Derren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
The point is to examine that story and then to use it to reimagine what’s possible going forward—to use the threads that are the through-lines of your past to weave a new story for the future.