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I understand better now why humans created certain arbitrary life goals. Getting married, having a kid, buying a house, retirement. All these things are “supposed to happen” at certain stages, in part because of biology. But surely they’ve also served to give us markers of time, to tell our brains that we’re aging even when we don’t feel it. I have
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pca.stWhen you’re in middle age, which I am (mid-middle age, to be precise—I’m now 52), you start to realize how very much you need your friends. They’re the flora and fauna in a life that hasn’t had much diversity, because you’ve been so busy—so relentlessly, stupidly busy—with middle-age things: kids, house, spouse, or some modern-day version of
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Your psychological age is the number of thoughts you've entertained.
Your sociological age is the number of contributions you've made."
3-2-1: On acting with confidence, the different types of age, and the importance of momentum
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
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