## Metadata - Author: [[archive.ph|Archive]] - Full Title:: The Myth of the Second Chance - Category:: #🗞️Articles - Document Tags:: [[happiness|Happiness]], - URL:: https://archive.ph/dKQdi?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email - Finished date:: [[2024-04-14]] ## Highlights > The surprise of middle age, and the terror of it, is how much of a person’s fate can boil down to one misjudgement. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hveh00m6v031zyhe61stnf9x)) > a person’s life at 40 isn’t the sum of *most* decisions. It is skewed by a disproportionately important few: sometimes professional, often romantic ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hvehjt9xe9m4nzht43enrb7t)) > I feel sympathy, but also amazement at the casualness with which people entered into big life choices ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01hvehm6ypkwva5prcev6cp3km))