Careers
fromFast Company
1 day agoThe real work-life crisis isn't early parenthood. It's what comes next
The real work-life crisis for employees arises from caregiving responsibilities during midlife, not just from parenting young children.
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Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
6 days agoThere's a particular kind of strength that belongs to people who rebuilt their entire personality after 40 - not because something broke them, but because they finally had enough distance from their childhood to see what was never theirs to carry - Silicon Canals
Personality changes after forty often reflect a deeper honesty about one's true self rather than a crisis or breakdown.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoPsychology says the midlife crisis isn't about wanting something new - it's the moment you finally hear your own voice after decades of executing someone else's blueprint and mistake the unfamiliarity for chaos - Silicon Canals
Midlife crisis often reflects an identity confrontation rather than mere loss, revealing buried personal preferences and voices.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoPsychology says the adults who feel most lost in midlife aren't the ones who failed - they're the ones who succeeded at a version of life they chose before they knew themselves well enough to choose - Silicon Canals
Midlife suffering can arise from achieving external success while feeling internally lost due to a disconnect between one's early dreams and current reality.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
2 weeks agoThere's a version of loneliness that only hits in your 40s where you look at the life you built and realize every single room in it was designed for someone else's comfort. The house is full. You're the one who's missing. - Silicon Canals
Midlife loneliness often stems from neglecting one's own life while focusing on others, rather than from losing connections.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoThere's a version of loneliness in your 40s that has nothing to do with being alone. It's looking at the life you built exactly the way you planned and realizing you forgot to include yourself in it. - Silicon Canals
Existential loneliness in midlife stems from disconnection from personal meaning, occurring when life structures built on external expectations no longer align with authentic desires.
Relationships
fromSilicon Canals
1 month agoI asked nine people who'd been married for more than 40 years what almost broke them and the same decade came up every single time - and it wasn't the one most people would guess - Silicon Canals
The forties represent the most challenging decade in long-term marriages, when couples become strangers to each other due to life pressures and personal changes.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoWise by Frank Tallis review how to turn your midlife crisis into a hero's journey
Following some of the arguments in Ernest Becker's 1973 study The Denial of Death, he proposes that such crises are at least partly the result of the western reluctance to face mortality. In Britain, we eschew open coffins, for instance. When our relatives die, as my mother did two years ago, they die in a hospital rather than at home. We can hardly even bring ourselves to say die, preferring euphemisms such as pass away.
Books
Mindfulness
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months agoMy mother repeated one Cantonese idiom throughout my life: 'you want beauty, you don't want life' | Michelle Law
A risk-averse person expects a dramatic midlife rebellion that could end in accidental death as a compensatory response to years of cautious, safety-focused living.
fromSlate Magazine
10 months agoTrump Wants to Bring Back Factory Jobs. I Worked on the Assembly Line. It Was Hell.
The Trump administration's nostalgic desire to revive factory jobs reflects a fundamental misunderstanding of modern economic realities and the impossibility of returning to a golden past.
Productivity
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