Ted Audio Collective. Hello everyone this is after hours I'm Felix I'm me here and I'm Dolly I'm on the faculty of the New York University Stern School of Business and I'm

thrilled to be joining you today. And we are so happy to have you, Dolly.

Fabulous. This week is special for you, right? it's the week when you launch your new book yes it's

my book pub week as they say I have a new book a more just future that just came out

this week and so I'm thrilled to celebrate the

birthday with you. Oh that is great so Felix you went through this recently I went through it a

little bit a while ago it's a kind of crazy time, do you able to enjoy it and kind of basket all in?

Are you going crazy or how's it going?

Yes, and both.

I'm definitely running on fumes.

I just had a meeting in my department. We had the screen up and I accidentally

forwarded to the last slide. And the last slide was this big congratulatory slide to me that my department had planned a surprise party and like a cake

and I had no idea it was coming and it sort of took me out of my keep it going

keep going mode into a bit of a celebration it was really lovely

that's fantastic so nice to hear that is great yeah and we brought topics of course

me here what do you have for us I don't know if we spend enough time talking about ourselves.

Oh God, I hear the worst. Can I leave now?

So there's this really interesting debate about midlife crises and there's this new paper out that really tries to

document how prevalent this phenomenon is and so I'm just really curious to talk to you about what you think about this stuff, what you think we should do about it, why it happens,

basically just a bunch of naval gazing, which is the podcast in general.

Yes, okay, midlife crisis.

And Felix, what'd you bring?

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