Never Retire: What The Second Act Of My Life Is All About
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From Thursday—
At the end of today’s post, the best thing I read all week. If you love music, particularly pop/rock, and you’re Gen X (or thereabouts), it might be the best thing you will read as well.
But first—
The biggest risk to your semi-retired life might be settling down in such a way where everything around you is familiar.
Like so many other life milestones drilled into our heads at a young age, it’s constantly reinforced that we should strive to have everything set in life as we cross mid-age. And, if you don’t, you have somehow failed. We equate settling down into a cocoon of familiarity with success in adulthood.
While there’s absolutely something to be said about putting down roots, I—by and large—call bull shit on this cultural more.
Does settling into familiarity work for lots of people? Absolutely. I’d be rigidly insane to claim otherwise.
However, for a subset of the population, this picture of life at any age—particularly around 50—can stunt your growth and put you in a rut you don’t even know you’re in.
To that end, ignorance better be bliss.
Today, I detail exactly what I mean by this. How it applies to me and might apply to you.
In the installment after this one, I tell a story about my Dad to tie much of the thinking together.