PART 2REVIEW! RENEW! REINVENT!

One of the reasons people end up trapped in a perpetual “hamster wheel” is that they’ve come to believe that they are too far along in whatever career they’re in to switch gears. They’re used to what they do, what they’ve always done, and they don’t think they can reinvent. They’ve been spinning in that wheel for so long that they’ve lost sight of the fact that it isn’t going anywhere.

How old is too old to reinvent yourself, to discover your true passion and work toward it? How old is too old?

The catch-all buzz-term we like to throw around, “society,” dictates that older is not better, that to become older is to become increasingly irrelevant. Ordinary people buy into ideas like that and keep busying themselves ...

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