![]() Much of the literature emerging around transitions between these Four Phases frames it as the sexy-selling idea of victims and trauma. The media, coaches and therapists love to claim a new crisis. It’s Not A Crisis – It’s a Quarterly Transition For those who have sown well, Q4 becomes a time of generativity, legacy, giving back, grandparenting and purpose. For too many, it’s a time of loneliness, poverty (especially for women) and despair. You reap what you’ve spent a lifetime sowing – which includes a willingness to continue growing - or not. That’s why I’ve called this phase Harvest. Research like Harvard’s 75-year-long Grant Study shows that the most important ingredient to a happy life are the relationships we’ve built and nurtured across decades. Responses are slowly emerging, from mindful ageing to assisted dying, seeking to capture the unexplored richness of our final quarter. I write this as my own mother, at 96, feels she has been locked up in hospice by her children… We need to bring it back and learn how to embrace this final transition more skilfully and intentionally. Swati Lodha calls the ‘wise demise.’ Instead, as Atul Gawande has written in Being Mortal, we’ve tried hard to eliminate death entirely. We’ve lost the art of what my colleague Dr. Our generation does not have many models of aspirational ageing. When and why they retired, what they then did with their times and their lives, and how contented they were makes a profound impression on their offspring. We are profoundly imprinted by how our parents aged – and died. There will be big movement in this quarter over the next… quarter century. They may be the answer to our forthcoming labour shortages. ![]() Older Boomers are leading the way, laid off in vast numbers during the pandemic, they are starting businesses, volunteering and hungry to find ways of leveraging and contributing their skills in a still-ageist world reticent to value them. Companies urgently need to awaken to this dramatic shift. In ageing societies, he forecast, the future workforce would be divided into the over and under-50s, with very different goals and motivations. Management guru Peter Drucker predicted this. Or vice versa.Īlmost 40% of the US labour force is currently over 50. Parents who choose to invest more time in child-raising in Q2 may invest more time in careers or causes in Q3. ![]() As careers stretch from 30-year sprints to 50-year marathons, breaks for everything from parenting and education to side-hustles and transitions will become more common and more acceptable. Understanding that we are increasingly healthy, active and engaged into our 70s (if not later) changes the shape and pacing of both personal and professional aspirations over time. Q4: pushes older age later, and lengthens it.Īcknowledging the existence and specific characteristics of Q3 is what currently needs attention and awareness.Q3: invents Q3 as an entirely new phase of mature, active adulthood, and.Q2: turns Q2 into a shorter, first-half-of-adulthood chapter,.
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