When it comes to this topic, many of us say, “Yeah, whenever,” and plunge back into whatever we are doing.
The topic is not death or taxes. It is retirement, a goal that many aspire to but many more dread, often for financial or health reasons. However, retirement is a reality. Teresa Amabile, professor emerita at Harvard Business School, has been studying it for the past decade or so. The result is Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You. Along with four other colleagues*, Professor Amabile explores the psychological aspects of retirement, a less well-explored topic.
As she told me in a recent interview, “I wanted to find out what the experience of retiring was really like psychologically and what happens with relationships in our lives when we retire and what happens with our life structure, the way we live our days and our weeks and our months and our years. That’s got to change drastically. How do people manage those challenges?”
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