It's hardly middle age.

Hardly middle age.

Middle age is more like 50, 55.

Only if you live to be 110. 2010. the political orphanage, home for square pegs in round holes.

And also, around pegs in square sockets.

But no triangles, that's for sure.

Not while I'm alive anyway. I'm your host Andrew Heaton, a

closet triangle. And today we're going to tackle a big question, a big societal

question, what's actually happening with the

midlife crisis and an answer to your immediate follow-up question? No, not yet,

thank you. How are you? Now granted, this is a topic that's a little different than our usual fodder here on the orphanage, but oddly enough we're going to enter it by way of economics, because it turns out that as unlikely as it seems

not only are midlife crises deeply misunderstood it was economists who stumbled

on to what's actually happening and And their insights, coupled with some fascinating social

psychology and even some tests involving chimps, have blown apart the stereotypes of fast cars,

absurd pot-bellied men, and their lamentable affairs with the office secretary.

Because it turns out, so-called midlife crises are actually something very different than the

quippy stereotype we see in sitcoms.

And fortunately, the underlying mechanics of the situation are both fascinating and

deeply beneficial to society at large.

There's something bigger and better happening

than just entropy and hair plugs.

And when we start to grasp what's actually occurring.

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