How to Cope With a Mid-Career Crisis

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🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Kieran Setiya, a philosophy professor at MIT, says many people experience a mid-career crisis. Some have regrets about paths not taken or serious professional missteps; others feel a sense of boredom or futility in their ongoing streams of work. The answer isn't always to find a new job or lobby for a promotion. Motivated by his own crisis, Setiya started looking for ways to cope and discovered several strategies that can help all of us shift our perspective on our careers and get out of the slump without jumping ship.

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1:03.6	Today I'll be talking about mid-career crises
1:06.0	with Kiran Setia.
1:07.6	He's a philosophy professor at MIT
1:09.6	who wrote a book called Midlife
1:11.4	and the HPR article Managing Your Mid Career Crisis.
1:15.1	I'll admit that I tracked him down partly for personal reasons.
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1:23.6	and for the past nine years as an editor at HBR,
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