Central to the myth of the American Dream is this idea: Hard work will bring you success. Hard work could build railroads, land men on the moon and bring them back, discover the cure for everything from polio to cancer, and turn brilliant but underfunded entrepreneurs into instant millionaires. But what about people who aren’t successful? They’re told it’s their…
“This fake idea that 40 is the new 30, or 50 is the new 40, has come up to bite us on the behind,” author and comedienne Annabelle Gurwitch told writer Judith Newman, who profiled her in a recent New York Times book review of I See You Made An Effort: Compliments, Indignities, and Survival Stories from the Edge of…
Singer-songwriter Amanda Carr has a brilliant technique for managing life’s ups and downs: She redirects her energy towards positivity, even when faced with something tragic. Haunted by the Boston Marathon bombing, for example, she channeled her grief not by composing a requiem, but by penning a rousing, hopeful song, Boston Anthem. Amanda and I were both on Jordan Rich’s radio…
Last fall, social scientists at the University of Southern California and the RAND Corp. published a study that looked into the factors that influence older people to retire. Not surprisingly, they found that economic drivers were better predictors of who stayed employed in their 60s than personality characteristics. The simple fact is that most people—whether outgoing, introverted, confident or worriers,…
I had a lot of fun reading an article called “13 Aging Myths We Love to Prove Wrong.” I particularly liked myth #8, which is “being defined by my past only—as if I have no present or future.” Think of it this way: If you’re 55, you could have 30 or 40 years left to live. That’s a quite a…
It wasn’t that long ago when where you banked reflected your social and financial position. The bank’s name or crest on your check conferred a certain status. White collar workers banked with institutions with the word private or trust in their name; those banks had grand pillars outside and vast marble lobbies inside. Blue collar workers gravitated to credit unions…
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