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Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot: A Pioneer in Spotlighting the Third Quarter

In this episode of 4-Quarter Lives, the first of three on the topic of The New Q3, we are re-publishing Avivah Wittenberg-Cox’s conversation with Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot from 2022. A sociologist and Harvard Professor of Education, with a teaching and writing career spanning five decades, Sara was one of the first academics to examine and focus on the third quarter of life. Her book The Third Chapter: Risk, Passion, and Adventure in the Twenty-Five Years After 50 uses interviews and story-telling to explore how people respond to this time of new opportunity and activity – or not.

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