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Midlife Isn’t a Slow Fade: 5 Ideas to Inspire Your Third Turn

Midlife Isn’t a Slow Fade: 5 Ideas to Inspire Your Third Turn7 Sept30 min
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Midlife can feel like standing on a rope swing: you know it’s time to let go, but the familiar still has a powerful grip. In Your Turn: How to Create a Midlife You Love, longtime NPR health and science correspondent Allison Aubrey reframes this unsettled stretch as a second adolescence—not a crisis, but a chance to renegotiate who you are and what comes next. She explores why purpose may be one of the most overlooked longevity tools, how to trade the old “learn, earn, retire” script for something livelier, and why your most surprising surge may still be ahead.

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