A guide to growing older

Arthur Brooks’s new book on aging shows how a healthy awareness of one’s own mortality can influence personal and professional lives for the better.

 
From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life

Arthur C. Brooks is a striver. As a young man, he was such an accomplished French horn player that he was able to make a living as a classical musician. He later obtained a Ph.D. and ran the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) for a decade. He also became a fluent Catalan speaker, a columnist for the New York Times, and a father.

But Brooks is also a seeker. Raised an observant Protestant, he converted to Roman Catholicism as a teen and has since explored a range of religious traditions during a lifetime of reading. He’s made spiritual journeys to India and has cultivated a personal relationship with the Dalai Lama.

The combination of striver and seeker makes Brooks an interesting guide to the problem of aging for the kind of driven overachievers likely to be reading this article. Getting old is something all of us face sooner or later, if we are lucky. But business leaders likely will encounter the problem long before their dotage, for aging societies and low birth rates imply that executives worldwide are going to have to get used to hiring and managing more older workers.

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