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Recently, I started thinking about what music could accompany each of these stages, not as background noise but as a score — the way filmmakers use sound to guide our emotions through a story. For the ending, nothing feels more poignant than Brian Eno’s “An Ending (Ascent).” Often described as the godfather of ambient music, ...
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My book, “Wisdom@Work: The Making of a Modern Elder,” came out in September 2018 and one day later, I found out that I had stage one prostate cancer. My colleague
January 30, 2024
Of course, a company can invest in all kinds of ways: creating new products, marketing to customers, learning and development for employees, etc. And while this is all critical to
January 26, 2024
I’m hopeful that we will retire the U-curve of Happiness, which shows that our life satisfaction dips from our early 20s to our late 40s when it bottoms out with
January 25, 2024
“Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a
January 24, 2024
For some reason, all of our rites of passage occur early in life or at our death. Where’s the menopause ritual, the Empty Nest celebration, or the Life Begins at
January 22, 2024
Living longer means we face more changes and are called upon to recreate ourselves, to change and repurpose ourselves more than ever before in human history. The MEA Process has
January 21, 2024
This morning I helped build a small ladder for a one-winged owl. This afternoon I’m feeding baboons, meerkats, vervet monkeys and mongeese with the rest of the volunteer team at
January 20, 2024
We all get older, but we need to work at “getting elder.” Unfortunately, there are no rites of passage for becoming an elder. You’re on your own and, in our
January 19, 2024
You can learn more about the study in this article. What does all that mean? The three key characteristics of a psychologically rich life are variety, interestingness, and perspective-changing experiences.
January 18, 2024
“Midlife chrysalis.” The midlife brand is saddled with the word “crisis.” Fortunately, a more life-affirming description of this stage of life can be found in the dictionary. Go to the
January 17, 2024
I’m going to focus on that last path in today’s post in commemoration that my seventh book comes out this very day, “Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life
January 16, 2024
“Power, properly understood, is the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political, or economic changes. In this sense power is not only desirable
January 15, 2024
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