I'm an outsider. I don’t have any personal experience with life in the big leagues, aka the corporate world. But, I DO have a perspective, an important one. I have been "married" to a global consulting firm going on 29 years. My husband has been with the same firm our entire marriage.

On the one hand, it’s depressing to read the stats of this Fast Company article on how many Americans are struggling with midlife. On the other hand, it’s encouraging to see this kind of sociological overview in a popular business magazine.

"Imagine if you are older, like in your 60s. Could you climb a tree? Should you climb a tree?" Those were the first questions proposed to us students in my Sports Psychology class in college.

Age is a cruel master. That seems to be society’s narrative. We often retort, "Age is just a number," as if we’re oblivious to the relationship between age and health. But there are three numbers that do matter. For simplicity, these three numbers exclusively use only two digits: a 4 and a 7.

One of my favorite books on learning is "A More Beautiful Question" by Warren Berger, which is in the MEA library here in Baja. Berger cites Paul Harris, a Harvard child psychologist and author, who says that a child asks about 40,000 questions between the ages of two and five.

It’s rare that I use my daily blog to let you know about a great opportunity but this feels like a good fit for so many of you. Encore.org has opened up applications for their second cohort of the Gen2Gen Innovation Fellowship.

Peter Thiel, Sergey Brin, Larry Ellison, Aubrey de Grey, and Peter Diamandis. They’re all obsessed with length. Oh, how men love comparing metrics. And it started early in life, most likely in the group shower after gym class.

Chip’s comment: This guest post seemed well-suited to Independence Day, not just for the U.S., but for yourself. Have your hopes and dreams been suspended during the pandemic? Even if you stayed physically healthy, it’s commonly recognized Covid took an emotional toll on all of us. Part of the price of the pandemic is its theft of so many dreams.

Ken Dychtwald’s AgeWave puts out some of the most insightful studies on retirement. Their most recent study, "The Four Pillars of the New Retirement: What a Difference a Year Makes," explores how the pandemic has affected many older Americans’ perspectives on health and financial security.

For the few of us who watched the Academy Awards this spring, you get a sense that this show isn’t made for those under 50 years old. Try as they might, the Oscar producers haven’t attracted the pre-50 crowd. And, AARP knows this as they debuted an ad targeting the GenX market featuring a middle-aged skateboarder representing the Nirvana generation.