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The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, And Adventure In The 25 Years After 50 (2009)

by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot(Favorite Author)

3.07 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0374275491 (ISBN13: 9780374275495)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Sarah Crichton Books

review 1: Good follow-up to Aging Well. I liked the idea of interviewing a number of people who were creating interesting, satisfying third chapters. To me it all seems to turn on the continued interest in learning new things. Author points out that happy people make new (sometimes younger) friends as the old fall away. Check on Fiona Featherstone's Mandala Project involving quilts, shown at Boston Center for the Arts. Follow-up reading: Mary Catherine Bateson, Willing to Learn (2004).
review 2: If you are heading towards age 50 and feeling the need to make drastic changes in your life direction, you may find this book inspirational. While it is academic in style (the author repeatedly has to circle back to defend her thesis, which gets tedious), it offers a number ... moreof "real-life" examples of professionals who have successfully reinventend themselves and their careers/interests later in life. The book establishes the need for an alternative social viewpoint than that of retirement years being ones of golf and leisure behind the locked gates of an age-restrictive community. Instead, society needs to foster growth, education and community interaction for individuals in this phase of life. less

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