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What to do when skill and energy wane

When professional and physical decline set in, what does one do?

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Sanjay Kumar Singh

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From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
Author: Arthur C Brooks
Publisher: Green Tree/ Bloomsbury
Pages: 272
Price: Rs 1,439

On a late-night flight, the author heard a woman a row behind say to her husband in a voice full of anguish: “It is not true that no one needs you anymore.” And a moment later: “Oh, stop saying it would be better if you were dead.”

The author’s initial reaction was to think the husband must be someone who had worked hard all his life in relative obscurity and was now regretting the passing of youth