Psychology says people who describe their 70s as the best years of their life aren’t looking back through a nostalgic filter — they’ve simply reached the age at which the things that were costing them the most have expired, and what remains when the performance obligations, the career pressure, and the need for approval all fall away at once is frequently the first honest version of a person’s life they have ever been able to live

Psychology says people who describe their 70s as the best years of their life aren’t looking back through a nostalgic filter — they’ve simply reached the age at which the things that were costing them the most have expired, and what remains when the performance obligations, the career pressure, and the need for approval all fall away at once is frequently the first honest version of a person’s life they have ever been able to live

Consider the possibility that, upon turning 70, the fallout from decades of unrealistic expectations for …

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Psychology says boomers didn’t develop resilience because they were stronger than the generations that followed — they developed it because they were raised in a time when the alternative was never presented, and a generation for which stopping was simply not on offer developed a relationship with difficulty that later generations have been trying to replicate but have not yet managed

Psychology says boomers didn’t develop resilience because they were stronger than the generations that followed — they developed it because they were raised in a time when the alternative was never presented, and a generation for which stopping was simply not on offer developed a relationship with difficulty that later generations have been trying to replicate but have not yet managed

Baby Boomers have the tenacity characteristic of their upbringing. Their formative years were spent fighting …

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