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    Midlife
    Kieran Setiya
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    Feeling lost in life's middle chapters? Kieran Setiya's philosophical guide challenges the midlife crisis myth with accessible wisdom. Featured on Freakonomics, this thought-provoking work offers intellectual tools for confronting regret and mortality - what if philosophy holds the key to your midlife renewal?

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    Standing at midlife's threshold can feel like waking up in a stranger's life-one that looks successful on paper but somehow feels hollow inside. Kieran Setiya's philosophical exploration of this territory offers something different from the typical self-help prescription of changing jobs, buying sports cars, or finding younger partners. Instead, he delves into how we might change our relationship with life itself. The midlife crisis-a term only coined in 1965 by psychoanalyst Elliott Jaques-has become a cultural fixture, yet research reveals something surprising: while catastrophic breakdowns remain rare, data confirms that depression and anxiety peak around age forty-five, approximately four times higher than in teenagers. This U-shaped curve of life satisfaction appears consistently across 72 countries and, remarkably, even among great apes. What's happening in these middle years isn't just cultural mythology but something fundamental about human existence-a philosophical problem requiring philosophical solutions.

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    The Inevitable Pain of Missing Out

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    Making Peace with an Imperfect Past

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    The Philosophical Path Forward