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# Focus on Meaningful Growth After 50 Top #8 Midlife Self-Help Bestseller 1,448 Reviews with 4.4⭐ Average Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up

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## Summary

> 📘 Own your second half — finally, really grow up with meaning!

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## Key Features

- • **Unlock Midlife Mastery:** Navigate your second act with clarity and purpose.
- • **Timeless Re-readability:** A book you’ll return to again and again for fresh perspective.
- • **Proven Bestseller Status:** Join thousands who’ve transformed their midlife journey.
- • **Jungian Wisdom Meets Real Therapy:** Blend deep psychology with practical life insights.
- • **Meaningful Synchronicity Explored:** Discover how inner and outer worlds connect in your growth.

## Overview

Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life is a top-ranked midlife self-help book blending Jungian psychology and real therapy stories to guide readers 50+ toward purposeful personal transformation. With over 1,400 reviews averaging 4.4 stars, it’s a trusted resource for those seeking deeper meaning and growth in life’s second act.

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Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up

Review: Borrowing, 'Did I find meaning, or did meaning find me?' - This is an excellent book! You can read the other reviews to see why. I'm going to discuss two criticisms of this 5 star book. If you are looking for a proof that you have an unconscious that is also equivalent to a soul which is linked to God, you won't find it. I'm not sure that you will find that in any book. Evolution theory stipulates that evolution has no goal, no plan, so humans are not destined to raise their consciousness. Synchronicity (S) is an opposite Jungian concept. There is a goal called individuation which is helped by S's. Jung has developed more than one notion of S, and there are several books which attempt to explain it. Hollis mentions S, briefly on page 253, "We have mastered the language of the outer world through physics and chemistry, but the principle of synchronicity acknowledges that there is an inner world of causality as well." The word "acausal" means _not_ having a chain of cause and effect events unfolding in physical reality; it's the opposite of causal. Here are some of Jung's definitions which I don't see as including the Hollis interpretation which is tantamount to describing a miracle manifested by the will of God (constellated through the archetypes) is a causal agency and/or process. I think that "meaning" is not considered by most writers to be causally ordered. Here are various Jung descriptions, "Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle; "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events." Jung variously describes an "acausal connecting (togetherness) principle", "meaningful coincidence" and "acausal parallelism" So it seems to me the Hollis description employs a peculiar emphasis. A skeptical agnostic will not find resolution or solace in Jungian theory as being true to reality. But the tools seem to work, at least so far. I became conscious that I had projected my anima on a real woman. Depth psychology recommends approaches to this dilemma. One of the methods is active imagination, or entering into a dialog with my inner, archetypal anima. I had this dream in which I was notified that two missing emails (I'm a retired computer tech) had been discovered. I remembered this dream when I awoke because I don't have any missing emails. Later on I was browsing the Yahoo news and read this article that Amelia Earhart and her pilot -- they think they found remains of where they crashed on some island in the Pacific. So then I read about Amelia, and she is the ideal of what I think my anima should be (I should be so lucky for such a real woman). I thought this event, my search for inner meaning through contact with my anima, and this outer event, discovery of news about Amelia Earhart, who matches what I would like my anima to be like, I thought this could be a coincidence touched by synchronicity. Hollis does a great job of blending in Jungian theory and his actual therapy accounts, which add up to a compelling and intriguing call to explore the Mystery of life. Perhaps the Jungian techniques actually do work and are testable in your own experience. EDIT: I have recalled that the woman I projected my anima upon did have a problem with some missing emails.
Review: Read it three times… it’s that good. - This is a great book by a great author. It’s the type of book you’d want to read more than once. If you find yourself on the other side of 50, this is a great book to help you figure out what the second half of your life might look like.

## Features

- Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #15,845 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #8 in Midlife Self-Help #150 in Happiness Self-Help #222 in Personal Transformation Self-Help |
| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 1,448 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Borrowing, 'Did I find meaning, or did meaning find me?'
*by C***N on November 6, 2014*

This is an excellent book! You can read the other reviews to see why. I'm going to discuss two criticisms of this 5 star book. If you are looking for a proof that you have an unconscious that is also equivalent to a soul which is linked to God, you won't find it. I'm not sure that you will find that in any book. Evolution theory stipulates that evolution has no goal, no plan, so humans are not destined to raise their consciousness. Synchronicity (S) is an opposite Jungian concept. There is a goal called individuation which is helped by S's. Jung has developed more than one notion of S, and there are several books which attempt to explain it. Hollis mentions S, briefly on page 253, "We have mastered the language of the outer world through physics and chemistry, but the principle of synchronicity acknowledges that there is an inner world of causality as well." The word "acausal" means _not_ having a chain of cause and effect events unfolding in physical reality; it's the opposite of causal. Here are some of Jung's definitions which I don't see as including the Hollis interpretation which is tantamount to describing a miracle manifested by the will of God (constellated through the archetypes) is a causal agency and/or process. I think that "meaning" is not considered by most writers to be causally ordered. Here are various Jung descriptions, "Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle; "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events." Jung variously describes an "acausal connecting (togetherness) principle", "meaningful coincidence" and "acausal parallelism" So it seems to me the Hollis description employs a peculiar emphasis. A skeptical agnostic will not find resolution or solace in Jungian theory as being true to reality. But the tools seem to work, at least so far. I became conscious that I had projected my anima on a real woman. Depth psychology recommends approaches to this dilemma. One of the methods is active imagination, or entering into a dialog with my inner, archetypal anima. I had this dream in which I was notified that two missing emails (I'm a retired computer tech) had been discovered. I remembered this dream when I awoke because I don't have any missing emails. Later on I was browsing the Yahoo news and read this article that Amelia Earhart and her pilot -- they think they found remains of where they crashed on some island in the Pacific. So then I read about Amelia, and she is the ideal of what I think my anima should be (I should be so lucky for such a real woman). I thought this event, my search for inner meaning through contact with my anima, and this outer event, discovery of news about Amelia Earhart, who matches what I would like my anima to be like, I thought this could be a coincidence touched by synchronicity. Hollis does a great job of blending in Jungian theory and his actual therapy accounts, which add up to a compelling and intriguing call to explore the Mystery of life. Perhaps the Jungian techniques actually do work and are testable in your own experience. EDIT: I have recalled that the woman I projected my anima upon did have a problem with some missing emails.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Read it three times… it’s that good.
*by D***D on December 4, 2025*

This is a great book by a great author. It’s the type of book you’d want to read more than once. If you find yourself on the other side of 50, this is a great book to help you figure out what the second half of your life might look like.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Important considerations as you move toward pre-retirement
*by J***S on December 1, 2025*

A great perspective for someone moving from exploratory, creative part of life to giving back some of your experiences to those coming up in their careers.

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