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When others judge your attempts to rediscover play

My partner thinks I'm having a midlife crisis because I suddenly want to try improv classes and learn skateboarding at 38.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The sudden awakening to unlived possibilities triggers others' defenses about their own dormant desires.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Adult play — how to reclaim it?”

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