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Sugestão de leitura: o texto “Dealing With Assange and the Secrets He Spilled” (ou Lidando com Assange e com os segredos que ele vazou), que será publicado no domingo na revista do New York Times (mas que já está disponível no site do jornal).

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Via The New Yorker.

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A dica é do jornalista e escritor Renato Modernell: vale a pena ler a reportagem “The U-bend of life — Why, beyond middle age, people get happier as they get older“, publicada na The Economist. Começa assim:

“Ask people how they feel about getting older, and they will probably reply in the same vein as Maurice Chevalier: “Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.” Stiffening joints, weakening muscles, fading eyesight and the clouding of memory, coupled with the modern world’s careless contempt for the old, seem a fearful prospect—better than death, perhaps, but not much. Yet mankind is wrong to dread ageing. Life is not a long slow decline from sunlit uplands towards the valley of death. It is, rather, a U-bend.

When people start out on adult life, they are, on average, pretty cheerful. Things go downhill from youth to middle age until they reach a nadir commonly known as the mid-life crisis. So far, so familiar. The surprising part happens after that. Although as people move towards old age they lose things they treasure—vitality, mental sharpness and looks—they also gain what people spend their lives pursuing: happiness.”

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A matéria “The Happy Marriage Is the ‘Me’ Marriage“, de Tara Parker-Pope, aparece desde o dia 31 como a mais lida no site do New York Times. Um trecho:

“(…) The notion that the best marriages are those that bring satisfaction to the individual may seem counterintuitive. After all, isn’t marriage supposed to be about putting the relationship first?

Not anymore. For centuries, marriage was viewed as an economic and social institution, and the emotional and intellectual needs of the spouses were secondary to the survival of the marriage itself. But in modern relationships, people are looking for a partnership, and they want partners who make their lives more interesting.

Caryl Rusbult, a researcher at Vrije University in Amsterdam who died last January, called it the “Michelangelo effect,” referring to the manner in which close partners “sculpt” each other in ways that help each of them attain valued goals.

Dr. Aron and Gary W. Lewandowski Jr., a professor at Monmouth University in New Jersey, have studied how individuals use a relationship to accumulate knowledge and experiences, a process called “self-expansion.” Research shows that the more self-expansion people experience from their partner, the more committed and satisfied they are in the relationship. (…)”

A reportagem faz parte do especial “Vida Sustentável” do suplemento Week in Review (vale a pena ler).

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