Over the twenty months since starting this Wisdom Well blog, we’ve published a quarter-million words with our daily missives. That’s comparable to writing four books. Whew! The good news is that I love writing in this form. Hope you enjoy your morning microdose of wisdom and wit.

Writing a daily blog post isn’t easy, but I do love it. It allows me to geek-out and read the work of many people I admire. And, occasionally, it allows me to pen a post that I can share with others far into the future. This is one of those.

I have finally moved into my new digs, smack bang in the middle of the city and it feels good.... but if I’m honest, it also feels a smidge confronting. Maybe that’s because I have officially stepped into that ‘new chapter’ that I’ve been pontificating about for the past few years and now I need to actually make good on all those grand plans I have for the second half of life.

"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is a mind-twisting film starring Brad Pitt featuring a man who ages backwards. One of my new friends in New Mexico, Doug Lynam, who wrote a terrific book "From Monk to Money Manager” feels he’s lived his life in the opposite direction of convention having started a career with contemplation and shifted to a financial career in his forties.

Andrew Huberman may be the most celebrated neuroscientist in the world. If not, he’s definitely the most listened-to, evidenced by this Stanford professor’s extremely popular podcast. It was recommended to me by Eduardo Briceno, Carol Dweck’s (“Mindset”) protege and a friend of MEA.

It was more than 170 years before the phrase “midlife crisis” had been coined, but one of the fathers of our country was having an existential crisis in his late 40s.

Chip’s note: Massey offered such a joyous, curious energy during his Sabbatical Session stay at MEA. While this guest post doesn’t necessarily fit the normal Wisdom Well topics, it does offer a window into why we keep seeing names like GameStop and Dogecoin in the news. If you want to understand how the “king of memes,” Elon Musk uses this communication tool to his advantage, read on.

Occasionally, there’s a TED talk that brings a tear to my eye, a song to my heart, and an epiphany to my head. This TED talk by Dr. Dixon Chibanda is one of those. There are just 12 psychiatrists in Zimbabwe, a country with 14 million people.

As you know, I’m fascinated by words. Here’s one that has multiple meanings: “hermitage.” Separately, it speaks to being at the hermit’s age when you may want to seek a hermitage. And, yet, The Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg is anything but a place for asceticism.

Over the last five years, I've been on an intergenerational journey with my now 80-year-old mom for our documentary, DUTY FREE. To say our time together has been life-changing would be cutting the experience short. I've been able to ask my mom every question I've ever wanted to ask, I've cried with her, laughed with her, learned from her, and fought for her.