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    The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50
    The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50
    The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50
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    The Third Chapter: Passion, Risk, and Adventure in the 25 Years After 50

    Written by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

    Narrated by Laural Merlington

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    In the twenty-first century, a developmental phase of life is emerging as significant and distinct, capturing our interest, engaging our curiosity, and expanding our understanding of human potential and development. Demographers talk about this new chapter in life as characterized by people-those between ages fifty and seventy-five-who are considered "neither young nor old." In our "third chapters" we are beginning to redefine our views about the casualties and opportunities of aging; we are challenging cultural definitions of strength, maturity, power, and sexiness.

    This is a chapter in life when the traditional norms, rules, and rituals of our careers seem less encompassing and restrictive; when many women and men seem to be embracing new challenges and searching for greater meaning in life.

    In The Third Chapter, Dr. Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot offers a strong counterpoint to the murky ambivalence that shrouds our clear view of people in their third chapters. She challenges the still-prevailing and anachronistic images of aging by documenting and revealing the ways in which the years between fifty and seventy-five may, in fact, be the most transformative and generative time in our lives-tracing the ways in which wisdom, experience, and new learning inspire individual growth and cultural transformation. The women and men whose voices fill the pages of The Third Chapter tell passionate and poignant stories of risk and vulnerability, failure and resilience, challenge and mastery, experimentation and improvisation, and insight and new learning.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateFeb 9, 2009
    ISBN9781400181360
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    Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

    Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is the Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard and the chair of the board of the MacArthur Foundation. As a sociologist, she examines the culture of schools, the patterns and structures of classroom life, socialization within families and communities, and the relationships between culture and learning styles. She is the author of Exit and The Third Chapter.

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      An inspiring look at the possibilities for aging people who have the courage and the wherewithal to be creative and passionate about their possibilities in this period of their lives. The writing is fine- the main limitation of the message for me and my friends and acquaintances is that most of us need to be concerned about maintaining our basics- income and health insurance. For myself, I also see a hesitation to learn new things- when those new things involve technology. But there is plenty of possibilities outside of technology that I could embrace- if I would only I would muster up the energy. In all, a book that provides plenty of food for thought.