What happens when the abilities that brought you professional success start to decline?
In this episode of Office Hours, I explore how our strengths change with age and how to be happier as they do. Drawing on my book From Strength to Strength, I explain fluid and crystallized intelligence and contrast how Darwin and Bach responded to professional decline.
As always, I leave you with practical steps to help you navigate this transition and find more happiness, meaning, and fulfillment as you age.
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Referenced:
• The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness
• The Pursuit of Happiness with Arthur Brooks
• From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
• Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think
• Is happiness U-shaped everywhere? Age and subjective well-being in 145 countries
• Creative productivity: A predictive and explanatory model of career trajectories and landmarks
• Theory of fluid and crystallized intelligence: A critical experiment
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