From Strength to Strength

Outline

From Strength to Strength (2022) addresses a challenge many successful people face: the decline in certain abilities as they grow older. Arthur C. Brooks explains that while fast, innovative thinking often peaks early, the ability to combine knowledge, teach, and share wisdom grows later in life. He shows how to embrace this change and find deeper purpose and happiness in the second half of life.

• Many successful people face a decline in certain abilities as they grow older, and the book treats this as a challenge to meet, not a failure.
• Fast, innovative thinking tends to peak early in life, so relying on it alone becomes harder with age.
• The ability to combine knowledge, teach, and share wisdom grows later in life and becomes a strength of its own.
• Moving past ambition and comparison opens the way to fulfilment built on meaning, connection, service, faith, and love.
• Embracing this change helps you find deeper purpose and happiness in the second half of life.

Arthur C. Brooks is an American social scientist, author, and professor at Harvard University who teaches and writes about happiness and leadership. He previously served as president of the American Enterprise Institute and writes a popular column on happiness. His books include From Strength to Strength and Build the Life You Want.