The Third Age Six Principles Of Growth And Renewal After Forty

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ISBN: 9780738204345 | 073820434X
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 1/11/2001

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Medical and technological breakthroughs have 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. But rediscovering a youthful spirit and staying truly involved in life demands an attitudinal shift, a resistance to outdated stereotypes, and an effort to balance the seemingly paradoxical pulls on our time and energy.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 Ageexpertly guides us toward and through the second half of our lives.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Making the Most of Your Thirty-Year Life Bonus	p. 1
An Unexpected Challenge	p. 2
The Need for a New Model	p. 3
New Discoveries about Adult Options and Aging	p. 4
The Alternative to Middle-Aging: Second Growth	p. 9
Six Paradoxical Principles of Second Growth	p. 12
The Dawn of a Third Age	p. 17
Shredding Old Scripts That Block Second Growth	p. 18
How Long Can This Go On?	p. 19
Principle One: Balancing Mindful Reflection and Risk Taking	p. 23
The Surprising Appearance of Second Growth	p. 23
Getting Started	p. 26
A Paradox of Mixed Messages	p. 29
Keeping Going	p. 32
Taking the First Paradoxical Step	p. 33
Looking Ahead to a More Abundant Future	p. 44
Principle Two: Developing Realistic Optimism	p. 47
Addressing the Dilemma of Optimism and Realism	p. 47
What Realistic Optimism Means	p. 50
Getting a Little Help from Your Friends	p. 52
Gaining Self-Confidence by Asserting What You Want	p. 56
Planning for Purpose	p. 58
Utilizing Detours	p. 62
Growing a Sense of Humor	p. 65
Taking Charge of Your Life	p. 67
Strategies for Realistic Optimism	p. 70
Principle Three: Creating a Positive Third-Age Identity	p. 73
Why Think About Identity at This Late Date?	p. 73
Detecting and Dislodging the Stereotypes of Age	p. 76
Building a Post-Institutional Identity	p. 79
Letting Your Youth Catch Up with Your Age	p. 83
The Paradox of Growing Older/Growing Young	p. 87
The Paradox of Gender	p. 92
Principle Four: Redefining Our Work/Balancing Work and Play	p. 97
Coping with Permanent White Water	p. 97
Recovering a Sense of Meaningful Work and Play	p. 99
Finding Work Not Listed in the Classified Ads	p. 101
Striking a Balance Between Work and Play	p. 118
Trading In Retirement for a Better Option	p. 122
Finding Meaning in the Paradox of Work and Play	p. 127
Principle Five: Balancing Personal Freedom and Intimacy	p. 129
Liberation One More Time--Greater Freedom after Fifty	p. 129
A New Kind of Marriage--Intimate Interdependence	p. 138
Freedom and Friendships	p. 146
Principle Six: Building a More Caring Life	p. 151
Increasing Our Capacity to Care	p. 151
Finding Meaning Through an Expansion of Caring	p. 153
A Caregiver Learns Self-Care	p. 156
Lust for Life: Caring for Optimal Physical Health	p. 163
Caring for Our Material Well-Being	p. 166
Caring for the Earth: An Ecological Spirituality	p. 166
Leading to a More Caring Society	p. 168
It's Your Life After All: Stepping into More Purposeful Living	p. 171
Designing Your Own Living Mosaic	p. 171
Creating a Balance among Multiple Commitments	p. 173
The Invitation of a Lifetime	p. 196
Afterword: On the Meaning of the Third Age	p. 199
An Era of Social Discontinuity	p. 199
Creating an Objective Correlative within the Third Age	p. 202
Notes	p. 207
Index	p. 229
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