The Two Choices That Keep a Midlife Crisis at Bay
“How to Build a Life” is a weekly column by Arthur Brooks, tackling questions of meaning and happiness. The dirty secret of social scientists is that a lot of research is actually “me-search. The midlife-crisis phenomenon has taken on almost mythic proportions in the American psyche over the past century. For years, scholars mostly didn’t challenge the conventional wisdom that a traumatic midlife crisis was normal, if not inevitable. Want to stay current with Arthur’s writing? Sign up to get an email every time a new column comes out.
Whether it becomes a crisis or not, midlife is indeed a difficult time for many. These challenges are compounded by a strange and very personal shift that starts around your 40s: The skills you honed in early adulthood start to wane. The first decision: Choose to focus on what age gives you, not what it has taken away. Read: The kind of smarts you don’t find in young people Midlife is the point at which your medium of choice should change from a canvas to a sculpture, in which the work of art appears as a result of chipping away, not adding.
Read: The seven habits that lead to happiness in old age You can take these steps on your own if you want, or get assistance from the growing number of organizations designed to help you along this path, such as the entrepreneur Chip Conley’s Modern Elder Academy or my own university’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, two programs I have personally participated in. In fact, for most people, life gets better starting in middle age. Looking for joy in middle age might sound like putting lipstick on a pig, looking for a few scraps of happiness in an obviously unhappy period of life.
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