Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife

A dynamic and moving investigation of the new science that is redrawing the future for individuals in their forties, fifties, and sixties to improve things—and for good.

There’s no such thing as an unavoidable emotional meltdown, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, cheerful book. It’s a myth, a dream. New logical research detonates the tale that midlife is a period when things begin to go downhill for everyone. Truth be told, midlife can be an incredible new experience, when you can grasp new conceivable outcomes, purposes, and joys. In Life Reimagined, Hagerty clarifies that midlife is about reestablishment: It’s an ideal opportunity to renegotiate your motivation, refocus your connections, and change the way you consider the world and yourself. Drawing from developing data in neurology, brain science, science, hereditary qualities, and humanism—and in addition her own account of midlife change—Hagerty redraws the guide for individuals in midlife and plots another course forward in comprehension our wellbeing, our connections, even our fates.