The 60-Something Crisis

How to Live an Extraordinary Life in Retirement

By: Barbara L. Pagano

Narrated by: Nancy Linari

The crisis of unfulfilled lives unfolds gradually, often with acquiesced boredom and a flimsy search for purpose. Our relevancy comes into question, or we succumb to the idea that the future will be one of slow-moving ambition and then an even slower glide into comfort as the flush of freedom fades. We can change this outcome if we want to. We should want to.

The 60-Something Crisis: How to Live an Extraordinary Life in Retirement is the first book to circumvent the tired and conventional approaches of finding purpose, passion, or happiness, or using reinvention to discover a path of fulfillment after sixty. It presents a clear, practical framework through four portals—geography of place, yield, kinship, and freedom—to navigate and support future well-being and happiness. Listeners will learn how to pursue desires, not roadmaps, to increase self-confidence and master risk-taking, and will discover the power and potential of investing in themselves at this time of life.

Barbara L. Pagano provides the foundation for taking on or taking back late-stage growth and shifts the conversation from “What’s next?” to “What do I need to know, what do I need to do now, and how soon can I get started?” The 60-Something Crisis offers a smart, well-written, practical, and poignant guide for the last third of life.

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Covers such a wide variety of topics!

I appreciated the various aspects of ageing to consider. The questions provided are extremely helpful in prompting deeper thought about moving through our later years with integrity.

Insightful and inspiring

Wonderful guidance on approaching retirement. Presented in a compassionate and practical format. Top notch narrator.

I should have guessed from the title.

This book does a great job of pointing out all the negative and depressing statistics about post-60’s life, along with egocentric stories and solutions that worked for the author but were not helpful for me.

I kept listening hoping it would get better, but ultimately found it uninspiring and mostly a waste of listening time. It definitely focuses on a crisis perspective.

I rarely give negative reviews, but I found very little positive to focus on here.

Great life nuggets in this book, especially the first half.

Author promoting her unusual (by choice) long distance separation from her husband and her bitterness towards mother made this book way too subjective in the second half.

As a 60 yr old, I highly recommend.

I am 60, not “retired” yet. I would recommend this to those in their 50s to start thinking about their 3rd stage plan, and definitely those in their 60s, 70s, even 80s who have desire to plan or continue an extraordinary life. I found this to be educational, enlightening, motivating. I will purchase a hard copy for a reference. I plan to share it to my 1980 graduation class.