What Nobody Tells You – Sapient Capital

A recent working paper that studied 500,000 people in developed nations found that major indicators of mental duress (depression, thoughts of suicide, stress, headaches and alcohol use) peaked in midlife. This happened regardless of income, nationality, gender, or whether or not people had kids. The authors concluded that the sheer scale of the problem “has not been grasped by the affluent world’s policy-makers.” Even if this crisis isn’t at all relevant to you personally, it still helps illustrate something that’s universally interesting. Much of the developed world doesn’t understand how major transitions work, especially in midlife. I frequently encounter people in various degrees of distress caused by being stuck or lost, mostly professionally. I offer them all a profoundly optimistic insight. I believe your present suffering is directly proportional to your future potential. I can’t see how it could be any other way. If you had no latent potential, and were content to be stuck in

A recent working paper that studied 500,000 people in developed nations found that major indicators of mental duress (depression, thoughts of suicide, stress, headaches and alcohol use) peaked in midlife. This happened regardless of income, nationality, gender, or whether or not people had kids. The authors concluded that the sheer scale of the problem “has not been grasped by the affluent world’s policy-makers.” Even if this crisis isn’t at all relevant to you personally, it still helps illustrate something that’s universally interesting. Much of the developed world doesn’t understand how maj