How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead with possibilities
foreclosed and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past the
sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present and the prospect of death that blights
the future? In this self-help book with a difference Kieran Setiya confronts the inevitable
challenges of adulthood and middle age showing how philosophy can help you thrive. You will
learn why missing out might be a good thing how options are overrated and when you should be
glad you made a mistake. You will be introduced to philosophical consolations for mortality.
And you will learn what it would mean to live in the present how it could solve your midlife
crisis and why meditation helps. Ranging from Aristotle Schopenhauer and John Stuart Mill to
Virginia Woolf and Simone de Beauvoir as well as drawing on Setiya's own experience Midlife
combines imaginative ideas surprising insights and practical advice. Writing with wisdom and
wit Setiya makes a wry but passionate case for philosophy as a guide to life.
