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How retirement reveals the emptiness of external time structures

I retired six months ago after 35 years of structured work days and now I wake up with absolutely no idea what to do with myself and it is terrifying.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A lifetime of external temporal organization can atrophy the capacity for self-directed time.

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