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10% Happier with Dan Harris
This new book by Arthur Brooks discussed themes of professional decline with age, noting that while some abilities erode, others strengthen. The speaker found the content bracing, challenging, scary, and inspiring, prompting him to reflect on his own life transition.
He's the author of the new book From Strength to Strength, Finding Success, Happiness and Deep Purpose in the second half of life. It's out this week. I blurbed it. It's really, really good.
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This new book by Arthur Brooks discussed themes of professional decline with age, noting that while some abilities erode, others strengthen. The speaker found the content bracing, challenging, scary, and inspiring, prompting him to reflect on his own life transition.
He's the author of the new book From Strength to Strength, Finding Success, Happiness and Deep Purpose in the second half of life. It's out this week. I blurbed it. It's really, really good.
And I want to solve that for me and I want to solve that for others. And I went on an eight year, I mean, I'm a social scientist. I'm a PhD social scientist. Why should we be able to take on this task? Unfortunately, that's like taking out your own appendix if you're a surgeon. So it was a little tricky. But after eight years, I think I've actually cracked the code.
I wrote mom I've just been reflecting a little bit on our conversation from the other day which you talked about how much you're enjoying your current situation and how deeply engaged you are with the community at the place where you live I have some respect for how well you made this transition it's genuinely a triumph I believe it ranks right up there with your stellar career and A plus parenting as a life achievement to transition into a completely new context and do it with such a plum and enthusiasm is an inspiration for me as your son
The book that we're talking about which you know eight years into making and has changed my life a lot and I hope it helps other people as well is called from strength to strength and it comes out from portfolio penguin and is finding happiness success and deep purpose in the second half of life