There are many reasons midlife gets pegged as a period of crisis sitting at the bottom of a U-shaped curve of life happiness. But one key catalyst is a tendency to fall into a cycle of sameness, one that puts us in a mindset of bending mostly toward our competencies.
There can be health risks to this kind of inertia if it leads to chronic boredom. By contrast, as I discovered, there can be powerful benefits from continuing to ask What do I want to be?
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