Don't Stop the Career Clock

"Our fear of old age and death, reinforced by the ageism in our society, can cause us to slow down and develop an inferiority complex at the age of maturity, a time that could provide our best, most productive, and most thoughtful years."

"The idea that age automatically brings decline in mental ability?that if you live long enough the brain breaks down and senility is inevitable, a fate escaped only by a few lucky ones?is a myth. "

"Creativity does not wilt or drop off automatically with our age and, based on the experiences of many of my clients, it can actually flourish at midlife, perhaps for the first time."

"Why are we suddenly supposed to be old at age sixty-five? What is the critical scientific evidence for this?"

"Ulysses is a model for successful contemporary aging in our rapid-fire, changing age of information and technology."

"Retirement separates individuals from previous roles, without providing them with the motivation for building a new self-concept in another role."

"In its full application, wisdom implies the highest and noblest exercise of all the faculties of the moral nature as well as of the intellect."

"This is not time for a quick survey or a "test" as your sole decision-making tool."

"For the twenty-first century, consider becoming a free agent or entrepreneur."