

4 Ways to Avoid Your Professional Decline
What happens when the abilities that brought you professional success start to decline? In this episode of Office Hours, I explore how our strengths change with age and how to be happier as they do. Drawing on my book From Strength to Strength, I explain fluid and crystallized intelligence and contrast how Darwin and…

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“55, female, caregiver, working on a poorly paid university teaching contract. Single. What keeps me sane is going to mass, going for walks and listening to uplifting conversations on YT. Thank you Arthur ❤”
“One way to reboot in middle age is by getting in the best shape of your life. I quit drinking at 53 and got back into running, freed up time, energy, got better sleep, then got published for the first time, the biggest raise of my career, t…”
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