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The Big Shift : Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife by Marc Freedman [Freedman, Marc] is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Big Shift : Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife about?

Marc Freedman, hailed by the "New York Times" as "the voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life," makes an impassioned call to accept the decades opening up between midlife and anything approximating old age for what they really are - an entirely new stage of life, which he dubs the encore years. In "The Big Shift," Freedman bemoans the fact that the discussion about longer lives in America has been entirely about the staggering economic costs of a dramatically aging society when, in reality, most of the nation's 78 million boomers are not getting old ... at least not yet. The whole 60- to 80-year-old period is simply new territory, he writes, and the people in this period constitute a whole new phenomenon in the 21st century. "The Big Shift"is animated by a simple premise: that the challenge of transitioning to and making the most of this new stage--while deeply personal--is much more than an individual problem; it's an urgent social imperative, one affecting all generations. By embracing this time as a unique period of life - and providing guidance, training, education and support to the millions who are in it - Freedman says that we can m

Who reads The Big Shift : Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife?

Author

Marc Freedman [Freedman, Marc]

Publisher

Public Affairs

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781586487850

Category

self-help

Subjects

Home & Lifestyle, Sociology, Management

Rating

3.36 / 5 (90 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14