By Arthur C. Brooks

Arthur Books, writer and professor at Harvard, in this book encourages “strivers” that their addiction to success will not prove ultimately satisfying. To find meaning and joy in the second half of their career they need to invest in relationships. The key to happiness is love found in relationships.

Brooks accesses lots of research, includes fascinating stories and anecdotes. The book is interesting. He makes the point that there will be an inevitable decline in our ability, but we can make the changes and adjustments and still be effective and find meaning in the second half of life.

Brooks considers himself a Catholic Christian, and he has good examples from the Bible. I felt it was annoying that he also peppered the book with examples from Buddhism and Hinduism. I felt that perhaps he does not fully recognize the power of the gospel and sees Christianity more as a religion. Either that, or he did not want to be accused of being intolerant of other faiths.