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You Don’t Need to Have a Midlife Crisis Because They Don’t Exist

Research shows that like fine wine, we get better with age

You Don’t Need to Have a Midlife Crisis Because They Don’t Exist

You Don’t Need to Have a Midlife Crisis Because They Don’t Exist

By The Editors

Buying a flashy red supercar. Marrying someone your daughter’s age. Twenty-five Dead and Company shows in the space of 50 days.

We all know the telltale signs of a midlife crisis … Or do we?

In a new story for NPR’s Morning Edition, author Barbara Bradley Hagerty argues that the midlife crisis — a term first coined by Canadian psychoanalyst Elliott Jaques in 1965 — doesn’t exist. After interviewing more than 400 people, Hagerty has arrived at the conclusion that despite changes in brain function, mood, physical ability and the possibility of a marriage slump, midlife is actually the peak of many people’s lives, both in terms of contentedness and intelligence.

Remember: age is just a number.

(Via NPR)

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