Podcast: No Stupid Questions
Episode: Are You Having a Midlife Crisis? | No Stupid Questions | Episode 115
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode, complete with an Amazon buy link and quotes from the episode.
Passages
Buy on Amazon"There was a book by Gail Sheehy which was just at the time massively everywhere; it was particularly looking at the passage of time and aging from a female perspective, but it was called 'Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life.' That was 1976."
Midlife
Buy on Amazon"It's called 'Midlife: A Philosophical Guide,' and he makes the argument that while the midlife crisis was kind of overhyped for a while, and then found to be not as prevalent as it was thought to be at one point, he doesn't dismiss it. He says there's all kinds of good reasons why this might exist."
The Conquest of Happiness
Buy on Amazon"I'm reading this book on chasing happiness by Bertrand Russell, also a philosopher, who says more or less the same thing: 'Don't spend your whole life thinking about your own happiness; it's the surest recipe to be unhappy.'"