Boundless Potential: Transform Your Brain, Unleash Your Talents, and Reinvent Your Work in Midlife and Beyond

Acknowledgments

“When a writer is born into a family, that is the end of the family.” So wrote Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul.

Fortunately, that has been far from my experience. In fact, while researching and writing this book, I discovered that endeavors such as this one can not only tighten existing relationships but sprout new and wonderful connections as well.

For her tireless support of this project, I owe my wife and life partner, Jane, the sort of appreciation that cannot be expressed by words alone. When I cautioned her, at the outset, to expect elongated mental and physical absences on my part, she responded, as she has through the years, “You need to do what you need to do, to be who you are.” Along with her ongoing encouragement and ...