Three Adult Lives: Second Edition
Do you feel that you are in the middle of your life, stuck, with the excitement of day-to-day living slowly ebbing away? Do you wonder whether this is really it? Whether there is something more?
These are common questions, and Three Adult Lives offers a powerful answer.
We are conditioned from birth - assigned labels, fed beliefs, handed a script and told to follow it. By the time we reach adulthood we have spent two decades absorbing the values, expectations, and behaviours of the world around us without ever questioning whether they are truly our own. Most of us simply carry on, walking the path laid out for us, never pausing to ask: who am I choosing to be?
Three Adult Lives argues that real adulthood does not begin until around thirty. From that point, the sixty or so years that remain can be approached as three distinct lives of roughly twenty years each - a first life to Build, a second to Reinvent, and a third to Flourish. This shift in perspective is liberating. It means that whatever stage you are at, there is always another life ahead of you, full of possibility.
Drawing on Western philosophy, Buddhist thought, evolutionary psychology and deeply personal experience, Stephen Castree takes you on a journey of self-discovery - examining who you really are, how you arrived here, and how to define your own philosophy for living. Along the way he explores the nature of the self, the question of free will, what it means for a life to be meaningful, and how to build the mental habits that allow you to truly change.
This second edition includes a new Foreword, updated reflections, and an expanded philosophical toolkit to help you start living your next life - today.
One life. Three chapters. The next one starts now.
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