![]() ![]() ![]() The postmillennial midlife crisis is figuring out that while we were busy making sure we didn’t miss out on anything, we were setting ourselves up to miss out on some of the most important things of all. Uncertainty makes people anxious, and distraction is the twenty-first-century opiate of the masses. ![]() There are fifty million twentysomethings in the United States, most of whom are living with a staggering, unprecedented amount of uncertainty. Note: Meaningful work and meaningful relationships (see Principles by Ray Dalio) I told Kate that while most therapists would agree with Socrates that “the unexamined life is not worth living,” a lesser-known quote by American psychologist Sheldon Kopp might be more important here: “The unlived life is not worth examining.” It seemed unfair to talk about her weekends when it was her weekdays that made her so unhappy.įreud once said, “Love and work, work and love… that’s all there is,” and these things take shape later than they used to. What is worse are the tears shed by thirtysomethings and fortysomethings because they are now paying a steep price-professionally, romantically, economically, reproductively-for a lack of vision in their twenties. ![]() More than half of us are married, or dating, or living with our future partner, by age thirty. Two-thirds of lifetime wage growth happens in the first ten years of a career. Eighty percent of life’s most defining moments take place by age thirty-five.
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