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When gradual retirement transitions feel like cultural failure

I am sixty and want to semi-retire, but my Ethiopian culture sees partial retirement as laziness and my family thinks I have lost my mind.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Cultures that see work as identity leave no room for the slow transformation aging requires.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Retirement planning across cultures?”

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