Carl Jung suggested life splits into two halves, and the surprise is what the second is for — not more career or identity, but an inward turn he called individuation, reclaiming the parts of yourself the first half left behind

In the early 1930s, a Swiss psychiatrist wrote an essay arguing that the second half of your life is not supposed to look like the first. The same goals that drove you in your younger years, would quietly stop working, and most people would be unprepared. The essay was called ‘The Stages of Life’, and [...] The post Carl Jung suggested life splits into two halves, and the surprise is what the second is for — not more career or identity, but an inward turn he called individuation, reclaiming the