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Why We Can't Stop Trying to Fix the People We Love
The one who fixes everything is rarely thanked for it. More often she is blamed. On why we can't stop trying to fix the people we love — and what it costs them when we do.
Carl Jung on the Unlived Life After 50
Carl Jung's idea of the unlived life is one of the most useful frames for the second half. What he meant by the shadow, what becomes hard to ignore at fifty, and what to do about the parts of yourself you set aside.