“It’s the mirror that does it to you first, I think,” said Carol on one of the final nights of the seminar. “I still thought of myself as I had been ten years earlier, but one day I looked in the mirror and said, ‘Where’d you come from, old gal? What ever happened to Carol—the girl who used to live here?’” Within organizations, you may begin to notice a widening gap between you at forty and the younger employees. It is as though some unmarked boundary had been crossed unawares, and you are now in another country. The young and the old seem to have their own places in the structure, but the
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