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That makes sense. I am in my 70s and still work, but sometimes just in an advisory position. As we get older it is important to have things to do, but perhaps
by mark_l_watson 4y ago
That makes sense. I am in my 70s and still work, but sometimes just in an advisory position.
As we get older it is important to have things to do, but perhaps better than lots of work is, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/putting-psyche-back-into-psychotherapy/202301/aging-men-and-irrelevance https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/putting-psyche-back-... :
“”Carl Jung famously said that a man spends the first half of his life building his external world, and needs to spend the second half developing his internal world. As we age, this truism becomes all the more important as our physical bodies and external importance inevitably diminish. Without a rich inner world to explore when the outer world has lost its allure (or our ability to explore it is diminished), we become like the cliche of the high school star quarterback whose peak in life was at age 18. If we can successfully navigate the transition from the external to the internal, we will discover that there are untold new territories to be explored that are richer than anything we found in our careers. And no physical or external diminishment need limit us in charting these new territories. Inner space is, I believe, the final frontier.””
- darkteflon 4y agoThank you. I’m 43, reading this has really helped contextualise changes in the last few years, since my son was born. Really appreciate it.