The Third Age Six Principles Of Growth And Renewal After Forty
by Sadler, WilliamEdition: Reprint
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Pub. Date: 2001-01-11
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Summary
Medical and technological breakthroughs have given most of us the equivalent of a thirty-year life bonus. As a result, we face a new period in the middle of our lives, what Europeans call the third age, which challenges us to change the way we live and transform the way we age. But rediscovering a youthful spirit and staying truly involved in life demands an attitudinal shift, a resistance to outdated stereotypes, and an effort to balance the seemingly paradoxical pulls on our time and energy. Practically instructive and powerfully inspiring,The Third Ageexpertly guides us toward and through the second half of our lives.
Author Biography
William A. Sadler, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology and Business and the Chair of the Business Department at Holy Names College in Oakland, California.
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. xiii |
| Making the Most of Your Thirty-Year Life Bonus | p. 1 |
| An Unexpected Challenge | p. 2 |
| The Need for a New Model | p. 3 |
| New Discoveries about Adult Options and Aging | p. 4 |
| The Alternative to Middle-Aging: Second Growth | p. 9 |
| Six Paradoxical Principles of Second Growth | p. 12 |
| The Dawn of a Third Age | p. 17 |
| Shredding Old Scripts That Block Second Growth | p. 18 |
| How Long Can This Go On? | p. 19 |
| Principle One: Balancing Mindful Reflection and Risk Taking | p. 23 |
| The Surprising Appearance of Second Growth | p. 23 |
| Getting Started | p. 26 |
| A Paradox of Mixed Messages | p. 29 |
| Keeping Going | p. 32 |
| Taking the First Paradoxical Step | p. 33 |
| Looking Ahead to a More Abundant Future | p. 44 |
| Principle Two: Developing Realistic Optimism | p. 47 |
| Addressing the Dilemma of Optimism and Realism | p. 47 |
| What Realistic Optimism Means | p. 50 |
| Getting a Little Help from Your Friends | p. 52 |
| Gaining Self-Confidence by Asserting What You Want | p. 56 |
| Planning for Purpose | p. 58 |
| Utilizing Detours | p. 62 |
| Growing a Sense of Humor | p. 65 |
| Taking Charge of Your Life | p. 67 |
| Strategies for Realistic Optimism | p. 70 |
| Principle Three: Creating a Positive Third-Age Identity | p. 73 |
| Why Think About Identity at This Late Date? | p. 73 |
| Detecting and Dislodging the Stereotypes of Age | p. 76 |
| Building a Post-Institutional Identity | p. 79 |
| Letting Your Youth Catch Up with Your Age | p. 83 |
| The Paradox of Growing Older/Growing Young | p. 87 |
| The Paradox of Gender | p. 92 |
| Principle Four: Redefining Our Work/Balancing Work and Play | p. 97 |
| Coping with Permanent White Water | p. 97 |
| Recovering a Sense of Meaningful Work and Play | p. 99 |
| Finding Work Not Listed in the Classified Ads | p. 101 |
| Striking a Balance Between Work and Play | p. 118 |
| Trading In Retirement for a Better Option | p. 122 |
| Finding Meaning in the Paradox of Work and Play | p. 127 |
| Principle Five: Balancing Personal Freedom and Intimacy | p. 129 |
| Liberation One More Time--Greater Freedom after Fifty | p. 129 |
| A New Kind of Marriage--Intimate Interdependence | p. 138 |
| Freedom and Friendships | p. 146 |
| Principle Six: Building a More Caring Life | p. 151 |
| Increasing Our Capacity to Care | p. 151 |
| Finding Meaning Through an Expansion of Caring | p. 153 |
| A Caregiver Learns Self-Care | p. 156 |
| Lust for Life: Caring for Optimal Physical Health | p. 163 |
| Caring for Our Material Well-Being | p. 166 |
| Caring for the Earth: An Ecological Spirituality | p. 166 |
| Leading to a More Caring Society | p. 168 |
| It's Your Life After All: Stepping into More Purposeful Living | p. 171 |
| Designing Your Own Living Mosaic | p. 171 |
| Creating a Balance among Multiple Commitments | p. 173 |
| The Invitation of a Lifetime | p. 196 |
| Afterword: On the Meaning of the Third Age | p. 199 |
| An Era of Social Discontinuity | p. 199 |
| Creating an Objective Correlative within the Third Age | p. 202 |
| Notes | p. 207 |
| Index | p. 229 |
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