Why am I sharing such a humiliating story? Because it's instructive to all of you who want to make your lives matter, live your purpose, master something, change some unjust political structure, live on fire and on purpose. You have to know that it's going to cost you some sweat.
It wasn't that I couldn't work hard, I had just learned how not to. Nothing great ever comes out of that posture because it's reactive, not creative.
This is why midlife is not a crisis. It's an opportunity to become who you were before you got scared.
The ego did a good job building you a safe container, but the second mountain is about love, and that container is too small.
Read MoreRecently, economists discovered a dip in life satisfaction for people between the ages of 45-50. It's reliable and statistically obvious and even appears even when contributing factors like unemployment or divorce are removed. It shows across cultures and even across species.
It's called The Happiness Curve and Jonathan Rausch wrote a book about it.
So I get why people buy sports cars and have affairs rather than dwell in this weird middle place. Who wants to deal with deconstructing everything? It’s a hassle, and the pain of doing it is likely only surpassed by the pain of not doing it.
Isn’t God so gracious to provide an example, in the natural world, of exactly how the process works.
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