Recent consultations with clients have converged in an exciting empirical finding. Focusing upon significant emotional and vocational transitions at midlife, we have often inventoried both material assets and knowledge assets at different life stages.

With the financial markets bubbling up 50% above their recent lows, clients seemed curious about looking back over adulthood and quantifying “how far” they’d come. For most, looking at the last dozen or so years in terms of present material asset values relative to earlier material “worth” (and correcting for inflation), they’ve discovered that their current material worth is roughly equivalent to what it was back then: say, in 1997!

The exciting turn is this: mulling about this personalized finding, there has been consensus across clients that the life lived during this time: of career challenges; of relationships– kids, wives, husbands, ex-s; and of what has been carried forward— the deepening of emotional learning about self in relation to others—- has been a real and valuable yield.

Almost always, there has been a comment about how “Zenlike” this moment feels— when the no-growth stability of material wealth contrasts with the emotional intelligence gained in living. Almost always they have commented on how learning really does emerge as the only value that we take forward from within our challenges and joys.

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