The Big Shift

Navigating the New Stage Beyond Midlife

By: Marc Freedman

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Paperback | 10 April 2012 | Edition Number 1

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Marc Freedman, hailed by the New York Times as “the voice of aging baby boomers [seeking] meaningful and sustaining work later in life,” makes an impassioned call to accept the decades opening up between midlife and anything approximating old age for what they really are – an entirely new stage of life, which he dubs the encore years.

In The Big Shift, Freedman bemoans the fact that the discussion about longer lives in America has been entirely about the staggering economic costs of a dramatically aging society when, in reality, most of the nation’s 78 million boomers are not getting old … at least not yet. The whole 60- to 80-year-old period is simply new territory, he writes, and the people in this period constitute a whole new phenomenon in the 21st century.

The Big Shift is animated by a simple premise: that the challenge of transitioning to and making the most of this new stage—while deeply personal—is much more than an individual problem; it’s an urgent social imperative, one affecting all generations. By embracing this time as a unique period of life – and providing guidance, training, education and support to the millions who are in it – Freedman says that we can make a monument out of what so many think of as the leftover years. The result could be a windfall of talent that will carry us toward a new generation of solutions for growing problems in areas like education, the environment, and health care.

Industry Reviews

The New York Times, April 30, 2011 Calls The Big Shift "an imaginative work with the potential to affect our individual lives and our collective future." The Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2011 Says its an "invaluable and inspiring read." USA Today, April 25, 2011 Hails Freedman as "a natural storyteller, a deep researcher and a forward thinker." New York Journal of Books, June 2011 "thorough, thoughtful, and exceptionally well written...Page One is a most encompassing volume on the issue of the future of journalism and newspapers...Highly recommended."

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An AARP Discount-and Two Cribs	p. 1
One River at a Time	p. 19
A World Out of Whack	p. 29
New-Stage Thinking	p. 55
The Next Map of Life	p. 85
Routes of Passage	p. 105
Ten Steps Toward a New Stage	p. 131
The Generativity Revolution	p. 155
Acknowledgments	p. 179
Eight Stories from the Next Stage	p. 183
Notes	p. 207
Recommended Reading List	p. 219
The Big Shift Discussion Guide: Getting the Conversation Started	p. 225
Index	p. 229
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