Why midlife may be your prime time, with Margie Lachman, PhD
6/10/202631 min
For many adults, midlife is a time of competing responsibilities: raising children, helping parents and managing careers, all while confronting their own aging. Yet psychologists increasingly see these years not as a period of crisis or decline but one of growth and opportunity. Margie Lachman, PhD, author of Primetime: A New Vision for Midlife, discusses the science of midlife, including why people often become more confident and resilient in middle age, how caring for others can be both stressful and rewarding, and why the choices we make in our 40s and 50s can have an outsized impact on our health and cognitive functioning later in life. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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[instrumental music] Midlife has a branding problem. Our middle years are often portrayed as a time of mounting stress, fading abilities, and looming regrets. And can you even hear the word midlife without immediately thinking midlife crisis? But in recent decades, psychologists who study midlife have found that this gloomy picture is mostly unwarranted. For many people, the middle years, though stressful, are also rewarding. It's a time when we take on meaningful roles in our families and communities, become more comfortable with who we are, and make choices that will shape our health and wellbeing for decades to come. So why does the myth of the midlife crisis persist? What does science tell us about how we actually grow and change during these years? Will millennials who are now just entering midlife experience it in the same way their parents did? And what are the most important things you can do in midlife to set yourself up for more healthy decades?
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