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How midlife philosophical questioning can undermine your sense of authority

I was always the one with answers and strong convictions and middle age has me questioning everything I thought I knew and I feel unmoored and useless.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The certainties that once made you valuable to others crumble under mature examination, leaving you wiser but less confident in your own voice.

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