Chapter 61 cut the umbilical cord

The vice president of General Motors suddenly quit his job at the age of forty-eight to lead a very different life. John.Di Loren is an enviable middle-aged man. At the age of forty-eight, he served as the vice president of General Motors, the world's most wealthy company. He has an annual salary of 300,000 pounds, lives in a luxurious mansion in Detroit, and is one of the possible candidates for the future president. It can be said that he can get whatever he wants, and he should be satisfied.However, when he was in his prime and his future was bright, he suddenly resigned from General Motors, changed his course, and went to lead a voluntary social welfare organization, running around, lobbying major companies to hire workers with poor conditions.

Although he didn't have a dime salary, he was content with it. Why did Di Loren do this?We say that because he's having a midlife crisis.Middle age is a critical period for weighing gains and losses. Some people are happy with the results and comfort they have gained through long-term efforts. He is satisfied with the same work and the same lifestyle, and believes that the rest of his life will continue on the basis of the existing direction and foundation. Seek development, and if you have spare capacity, engage in more social activities.But some people feel empty and painless about the past life, and want to make a change.Diderot can be said to belong to the latter.

After he entered middle age, he reassessed his past work and lifestyle and found that he had to take certain actions to overcome his growing dissatisfaction. , lived a completely different way of life, and looked like two different people before and after. There is an increasing trend of this kind of people in all walks of life. It is not because of failure or frustration that they change jobs, but because of the emptiness after success and fame, which drives him to cut off the umbilical cord of middle age, reborn to be another person, to live another life. Life. Many people have made the second half of his life full and meaningful because of this transformation.