Metadata
- Author: archive.ph
- Full Title:: The Myth of the Second Chance
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: 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)
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)
I feel sympathy, but also amazement at the casualness with which people entered into big life choices (View Highlight)