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               The usual response to that kind of exhaustion is to tell people to build more resilience. Gratton's diagnosis is more broad-based. People in their 40s and 50s stall, Gratton argues in Harvard Business Review, because the job treats them like they're near the finish line of a 30-year career when they're actually only about halfway through one that will run 50 or 60 years. Nobody redesigned the job, the promotions, or the 
expectations to match the extra decades.
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               Gratton calls this stretch of a career the "pivotal 40s," the years when someone carries the most responsibility they'll ever hold and has the least space to step back and think about any of it.
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               A 10-week pilot program she ran with 20 midcareer and senior 
professionals from three companies in France, Sweden, and the U.K. tested that pattern directly. People in their 40s posted the weakest scores of any age group on what Gratton calls "calm," the capacity to pause and reset. The decade that most needs a clear head is the same decade that leaves the least time to find one.
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               A division head in their 40s, pressed to react rather than reflect, ends up in permanent fight-or-flight. Reactive calls at that level drag other people's budgets and
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               Those consequences push people in their 40s into a harder question than whether they're performing well. Gratton's participants found themselves asking whether they were even in the right place. A question like that takes real time to answer honestly, and the job that created it is also the job that crowds out any chance to sit with it.
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