At last, this is your story. You'll recognize yourself, your friends, and your loves. You'll see how to use each life crisis as an opportunity for creative change -- to grow to your full potential. Gail Sheehy's brilliant road map of adult life shows the inevitable personality and sexual changes we go through in our 20s, 30s, 40s, and beyond. The Trying 20s -- The safety of home left behind, we begin trying on life's uniforms and possible partners in search of the perfect fit. The Catch 30s -- illusions shaken, it's time to make, break, or deepen life commitments. The Forlorn 40s -- Dangerous years when the dreams of youth demand reassessment, men and women switch characteristics, sexual panic is common, but the greatest opportunity for self-discovery awaits. The Refreshed (or Resigned) 50s -- Best of life for those who let go old roles and find a renewal of purpose.
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I first read this book at the ancient age of 27, and it then had little relevency to my budding young life, my passages had been so few...now, at the age of 48, it all looks like a roadmap of my life, much of what Sheehy wrote now makes sense, now comes into focus, now jumps off the page at me...my suggestion is that the book needs to be updated, rewritten from the perspective of one who has actually made the "Passages"...still, the book is remarkable...either Sheehy is the most intuitive person who ever lived, or did research unknown at the time to man/woman...all in all, I find it a book best read once you've been there and done that...otherwise, it means little...unfortunately, I think, it is a work only appreciated in your own personal rearview mirror...reading it as a young man or woman might unduly influence how one's life plays out...but I have every intention of reading it again, and perhaps again...
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The first time I read Gail Sheehy's book, _Passages_, was back in the 70's when the book first came out. In fact, I think everyone in one of my graduate school psychology classes had read or was reading it before enrolling for our developmental psychology class! It turned out that everyone of us had enrolled in that particular class because of what we had read in _Passages_ and were trying to apply it to our own adult life crises. The book was quite revealing about adult life and what each of us might expect at the turning points of our lives. Now, I am re-reading _Passages_ and I still find the book to be insightful; however from a perspective of twenty-some years down the road, I think that perhaps the book more appropriately describes the "passages" in adult life for a particular generation. I am looking forward to reading Sheehy's sequel, _New Passages_.
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Read in my 20s and just as good several decades later.
No one is educated how to manage in life through various stages, just education and work.
Very good read to how we all change,
No one is educated how to manage in life through various stages, just education and work.
Very good read to how we all change,
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