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children, having a restless desire to hit

every party in town may be less useful than

the urge to stay home and love the one

you’re with. Also, a certain degree of introspection

may help us age with equanimity.

If the task of the first half of life is to put

yourself out there, the task of the second

half is to make sense of where you’ve been.

4. social life is performance: See, for example,

Carl Elliott, Better Than Well: American

Medicine Meets the American Dream

(New York: W. W. Norton, 2003), 47.

5. Jack Welch advised in a BusinessWeek:

Jack Welch, “Release Your Inner Extrovert,”

BusinessWeek online, November 26,

2008.

6. Free Trait Theory: For an overview of Free

Trait Theory, see, for example, Brian R.

Little, “Free Traits, Personal Projects, and

Ideo-Tapes: Three Tiers for Personality

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