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The Runway Problem, Time, Youth and the Inevitable Wall

One of the most challenging realities of aging is the shortening runway. When you’re young, time stretches out like a long, open field, you have a long runway. You can run hard, build speed, take risks, and trust that you have enough distance to get airborne. Youth gives you the margin for error: time to […]

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Youth, Age, Energy & Serendipity

In the theater of a single life, where the curtains rise on boundless vitality and fall on quiet acceptance, there unfolds a profound arc shaped by the interplay of energy, time, and fortune.  Youth arrives as a lavish subsidy from the universe, a non-renewable gift of effortless abundance, where every sensation is amplified, every risk […]

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Aging & Retaining Value of Human Connection & Exchange

There comes a moment in life when a person begins to sense his or her own disappearance—not the biological one, but the social one. It is the quiet vanishing of relevance. You leave a job, you sell a business, you step back from the arena of competition, and suddenly, the world looks past you as […]