This article in the Atlantic focuses on a four-year quest by a social scientist who set out to research how he could prepare for his own eventual professional decline. Through his journey, he discovered that rather than having to dread it, there are ways to view it as an opportunity for progress. Arthur Brooks, president of the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, takes an entertaining walk through some examples of what he refers to as the Principal of Psychoprofessional Gravitation, which he says “can help explain the many cases of many people who have done work of world-historical significance, yet wind up feeling like failures.”