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Psychology says the happiest people after 70 aren’t the ones who found purpose — they’re the ones who stopped demanding that every day justify itself, and that permission to exist without producing anything changed everything
['Written By', 'Lachlan Brown', 'Lachlan Brown Is A Writer At Silicon Canals Contributing Across The Mind Pillar. His Background Blends Formal Training', 'A Graduate Diploma In Psychological Studies Deakin University', 'With A Long Practice Of Eastern Philosophy', 'Two Decades Of Operating Businesses Scratch. He Writes About High-Performance Routines', 'Decision-Making Under Pressure', 'The Discipline Of Clarity In Technology Work', 'Where The Patterns That Govern Building Also Govern Living. He Splits His Time Between Singapore', 'Ho Chi Minh City.']
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What the evidence does support is a more interesting distinction: purpose can enrich a life, while the demand that every day prove its purpose can impoverish one.
Savouring does not require an afternoon to lead somewhere.
Routines can hold a life without judging itThis may seem to contradict my earlier article arguing that meaningful routines help retirement feel coherent.
Missing a day does not threaten the identity.
The day does not have to make a case for itselfAt thirty-seven, I am still surrounded by measurement.