ENTER THE AGE OF THE EXISTENTIAL NOMAD
We are entering a psychological and cultural era in which the old structures that once organized human life-stable identities, lifelong careers, prescribed roles, and shared pathways to meaning-are dissolving. In their place is emerging a new kind of person: the existential nomad.
Earlier generations often accepted ready-made identities supplied by family, religion, community, or profession. Today, millions of people find that they must decide everything for themselves: what to believe, where to live, what work matters, whether to marry, whether to have children, and even who they wish to become. This crisis is confronting everyone.
The greatest skill of the coming decades will not be resilience but reinvention. More people than ever will change careers, relationships, identities, communities, and ambitions countless times over the course of a lifetime. They may even need to reinvent themselves daily!
The existential nomad is no longer the exception. Increasingly, the existential nomad is all of us. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Eric Maisel paints a bold, clear picture of how we can handle this existential emergency and flourish as existential nomads.
