Growing old gets a bad rap, and it's not hard to see why. Your hair thins and your waist thickens. The shot clock ticks down on your career, and you realize, much to your dismay, that your youthful dreams of greatness — patents, prizes, and periodicals with your face on the cover — are unlikely to come true before the buzzer. And what do you see up ahead? A road sign. "Highway Ends. Last Exit: Retirement. One Mile." Retirement. Just a polite word for purposelessness. That's the cynic's view of aging, anyway. But does it have to be that way? Not according to Chip Conley ("Learning to Love Midlife"). He says midlife can be a period of renewal, hope, joy, and connection. If you're open to it. Are you?
THE ESSENTIALS: Our Favorite Moments From Season 4
BICYCLES: Are They the Future of Transportation?
BIG DATA: Cracking the Codes of Love, Happiness and Success
Susan Cain & Daniel Pink: Writing, Longing, and the Search for Meaning
RELATIONSHIPS: Why Everything You Know About Them Is (Mostly) Wrong
How To Be a Grown-Up
IMAGINABLE: How Anyone Can Predict the Future (Yes, Even You)
CULTURE: How Successful Groups Work
GET IT DONE: How the Science of Motivation Can Help You Achieve Your Goals
Bonus: The Not-So-Great Resignation (WorkLife with Adam Grant)
FUN: How to Have More of It
TWITTER: What Elon Musk’s Acquisition Means for the Future of Social Media
EMOTIONAL: Do Your Feelings Make You Smarter?
ORIGIN: How Did Humans Migrate to the Americas?
BITTERSWEET: Susan Cain on the Beauty of Sorrow and Longing
Regrets: Daniel Pink Has a Few (And So Should You)
REALITY+: Are We Living in a Simulation?
HURT SO GOOD: The Pleasures of Suffering (Paul Bloom & Susan Cain)
EMPIRE: Why Ray Dalio Thinks We May Be Headed for Civil War
TIME MANAGEMENT FOR MORTALS: Malcolm Gladwell and Oliver Burkeman
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