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Portfolio careers are on the rise and to me this makes perfect sense, because they’re more reflective of the way humans are built. We’re multi-dimensional, multi-faceted, multi-passionate beings, so surely our work should be multi-dimensional, multi-faceted and speak to our multiple passions.

Many of us are realising that we don’t want “traditional... See more

Instead, I’d say that what I was looking for throughout my childhood and adolescence and young adulthood was what Romain Rolland called “oceanic feeling” in a letter to Freud in 1927: “the sensation of eternity, of ‘being at one with the external world as a whole.’” In other words, I was looking for the presence of God. The feeling, not the narrati... See more

If you're unsatisfied you have two options. Change your experience or change your relationship to experience. The first is agency, the second is spirituality. Both capacities are important, and it takes a lifetime to get the balance right

As you move forward, there are a few things to keep in mind. First and foremost, it’s never too late to “become” yourself. Aristotle, for example, didn’t fully devote himself to writing and philosophy until he was nearly 50. There are also benefits to taking a long, winding path to self-fulfillment. Remember that age typically brings wisdom, resili... See more

“The thing that happens in midlife is you start to feel the weight of accumulation of what you’ve acquired throughout your life. I don’t mean just physical things, I mean friends, responsibilities, the identities, and the invisible name tags that define who you are in the world. You frankly start to feel overwhelmed by all that accumulat

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The midlife-crisis phenomenon has taken on almost mythic proportions in the American psyche over the past century. The term was first coined by the Canadian psychoanalyst Elliott Jaques, who noticed a pattern in the lives of “great men” in history: Many of them lost productivity—and even died—in their mid-to-late-30s, which was midlife in past cent

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