Boundless Potential: Transform Your Brain, Unleash Your Talents, and Reinvent Your Work in Midlife and Beyond
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Chapter 1 The New Normal
Meeting on the Edge of Tomorrow
Chapter 2 Where Is Your Fascination?
Success Story: Sherwin B. Nuland
Chapter 3 A Blueprint for Reinvention
The Secret of Reinventive Work
Chapter 4 Structuring Your Future
Success Story: Horace Deets
Chapter 5 Diverted to the Desert
How America Got Hooked on Retirement
Part 2 The Science of Lifelong Success
Chapter 6 The Magic Touch
Success Story: Marion Rosen
Chapter 7 The Neuroscience of Potential
Why We’re Hardwired to Reinvent
Chapter 8 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Success Story: Gil Garcetti
Part 3 Happiness Built to Last
Chapter 9 Eugeria
How Paying It Forward Pays You Back
Chapter 10 The Road to Reinvention
Success Story: Rita K. Spina
Chapter 11 The Encore Manifesto
Leveraging the Age Wave
Chapter 12 Realizing Your Potential
Lessons for Getting Started
Epilogue The Rhythm of Reinvention
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index
Footnote
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There's no better time than now to remake your career and life
Neuroscience research reveals that creativity spikes in our later years—making midlife an ideal time to change professions. This breakthrough career-reinvention guide shows workers in their forties and over how to leverage this newfound potential.
Boundless Potential empowers you with the knowledge, inspiration, and tools to kick-start anything from a new entrepreneurial venture to a new career. Using case studies, interviews, and revelations from cutting-edge research, it offers a blueprint for personal and work reinvention in midlife and a glimpse of the true lifelong potential of the human mind.
Mark S. Walton is a professor of leadership in the U.S. Navy's Advanced Management Program and a distinguished lecturer in management at the Senior Executive Institute and Kenan-Flagler Graduate Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His book Generating Buy-In was selected by Soundview Executive Summaries as one of the Top 30 business books of the year.