Old is good, jumping the curve and reaching vanaprastha

You are getting old. You are reaching the nest wave of your life, or what will you do when you grow up? It is a fascinating subject. That might have to do with my age (I am 57), but I also think that the part of your life is coming sooner. I think millennials are much quicker at understanding what is really important in life.

From Strength to Strength, Finding Success, Happiness and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

For genX-ers, “From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life” is the perfect book. A book about professional decline, a book about the “striver’s curse”, a book about the agony of irrelevance, a book about reinvention and ultimately, a book about hope. A practical and very light version of Sadguru´s “Inner engineering”.

Decline

When you get older, you have to expect a decline. By the time you are fifty, your brain is as crowded with information as the New York Public Library. Meanwhile, your personal research librarian is creaky, slow, and easily distracted. There should be no surprise there — no one expects a serious athlete to remain competitive until age sixty. The probability of producing a major innovation at age seventy is approximately equal to what it was at age twenty — about zero. For writers…