The Third Age: The Six Principles of Personal Growth and Renewal After 40 - Hardcover

Sadler, William A.

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9780738202235: The Third Age: The Six Principles of Personal Growth and Renewal After 40

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ISBN 10: 0738202231 ISBN 13: 9780738202235

Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc, 2000

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Medical and technological breakthroughs have, in effect, given most of us the equivalent of a thirty-year life bonus. As a result, we face a new period in the middle of our lives, what Europeans call the third age, which challenges us to change the way we live and transform the way we age. Based on a major study of the unfolding lives of a select group of men and women (from mid-forties to eighties), The Third Age shares their collective wisdom and illustrates how we can creatively redesign our lives in anticipation of and through our added years.Rediscovering a youthful spirit and staying truly involved in life demands an attitudinal shift, a resistance to outdated stereotypes, and an effort to balance the seemingly paradoxical pulls on our time and energy. Practically instructive and powerfully inspiring, The Third Age expertly guides us toward and through the second half of our lives.

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Synopsis:

An inspiring guide to fulfillment and rejuvenation, based on a groundbreaking 12-year study of adults in midlife.. Medical and technological breakthroughs have, in effect, given most of us the equivalent of a thirty-year life bonus. As a result, we face a new period in the middle of our lives, what Europeans call the third age, which challenges us to change the way we live and transform the way we age. Based on a major study of the unfolding lives of a select group of men and women (from mid-forties to eighties), The Third Age shares their collective wisdom and illustrates how we can creatively redesign our lives in anticipation of and through our added years.Rediscovering a youthful spirit and staying truly involved in life demands an attitudinal shift, a resistance to outdated stereotypes, and an effort to balance the seemingly paradoxical pulls on our time and energy. Practically instructive and powerfully inspiring, The Third Age expertly guides us toward and through the second half of our lives.

About the Author:

William A. Sadler, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology and Business and the Chair of the Business Department at Holy Names College in Oakland, California.

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