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How to Start Over: When You Think It's Too Late

How to Know What’s Real

CHAPTER

The Mid Life Crisis

Hanne schwant is an assistant professorof human development and social policy at northwestern university. He helped me understand how mid life dissatisfaction might be one cause of big career changes, and why mid life crisis isn't always the right way to think about it. High expectations is really hard to do, you know, when you get married and have kids and go to job interview. It's really hard to just tell people like hag that everything they want in their lives is not what they've got. So we don't see any significant differences n a large german data sat wherelike people are followed over time. We find this pattern across all our society. You find it for high paying jobs

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