Some psychologists are exploring the connection between being generative and telling our personal narratives in certain ways.404 The professor Dan McAdams looks at how people recount their lives. The script that “highly generative” adults follow often includes turning points—“redemption sequences”—where negative experiences somehow became meaningful.405 People in midlife who see redemption sequences in their life show more overall well-being.406 Could that be our recourse? To look back and around and say this means that and this thing is over and this other thing is beginning? Writing our
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