Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life

Second Act: What Late Bloomers Can Tell You About Success and Reinventing Your Life

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Henry Oliver is a rare talent: smart, funny and insightful. SECOND ACT showcases his wide reading, deep understanding and playful prose style. Read this book to discover why its never too late for a second act in your own life.HELEN LEWIS, author of Difficult WomenOur society tells us over and over that if were going to achieve anything, wed better do it while were young. We fixate on stories of prodigies; we put our children in piano lessons or language classes as toddlers, hoping to give them the best shot at success we can. As for ourselves, too many people feel its too late to change the course of their own lives. Whether we are at the start of our careers and sense were on the wrong path, or feeling unsettled in our late or middle years, we all wonder how we can reinvent ourselves? Is it too late?This book has answers. Late bloomers individuals who experience significant success later in life offer lessons for people who feel frustrated. This book encourages people to think about themselves as potential late bloomers and to discover and encourage and advocate for late blooming in others. After all, its never too late to discover our hidden talents and our accomplish our goals the road to success is never as straightforward as we are lead to believe. Julia Child didnt discover that she loved to cook until she was thirtyseven. Vera Wang started her design business at forty. And Michelangelo painted The Last Judgment in his sixties.This inspiring, passionate book combines wonderful storytelling with fascinating new research, to shift expectations around our life trajectories. Youll discover a range of blueprints for selfreinvention, pairing the newest insights from psychology and neuroscience with late bloomers remarkable life stories, from Penelope Fitzgerald to Samuel Johnson, from Frank LloydWright to Malcolm X.

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