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Episode 16: Navigating midlife with Kieran Setiya

Reconsidering

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What's the Origin of the Mid Life Crisis?

In the book, you cite the stoics frequently reflecting on their mid ife. In 19 65, this canadian psychoanalyst, eliot jacques, writes an essay, death in the mid life crisis. And then it gets picked up in the 19 seventies in pop culture by journalist galshe has a book called passages that sort of popularized the idea of the midlife crisis. The experience has to do fundamentally with the temporal sort of shape and structure of human life,. we have a limited number of years to live.

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