What can you rely on?
What knowledge and skills can you take with you?
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
I think this line became famous not only because it speaks so precisely about families. Its meaning goes much further.
Happy periods of life often resemble one another too. When everything goes as expected, we quickly stop noticing how we live.
We go to work, raise our children, meet friends. We make decisions that seem natural because we know they worked before.
And then something changes. The familiar order collapses.
We move to another country. We lose a job. Change careers. Or simply come to feel that we can no longer go on as before.
What must you leave behind?
How do you acquire new knowledge and skills?
And what do you do when you are no longer twenty,
or thirty, or even fifty?
This, above all, is what this book is about.
