Prologue_ Fifty, the feast has begun

Chapter 1: As I got older, life started to get more interesting.

People who want to live an active and independent middle age
The most popular person in middle age is the person who is admired
Why You Should Sing Loudly and Often
4 Skills for Having a Great Sense of Humor
The healing power of doodling to transform boring and dull everyday life.
How to Become the Main Character in the Play of Life

Chapter 2: As I grew older, I began to bond with my family.

Walk away from your grown children with dignity.
3 Things Children Want to Say to Their Parents
How to Communicate with Your Children in the Post-COVID Era
Things that happy couples never do and things that they always do
How to Become a Wonderful Family
A family of different species, the joy of pets

Chapter 3: As we get older, our relationships become more comfortable.

How will social relationships change after middle age?
When you meet someone, meet a good friend, not a good friend
Just like YouTube, there are algorithms in human relationships.
If you are wondering whether you should make new friends
Human relationships don't just end with fostering friendship.
Communication skills that bridge generational gaps

Chapter 4: As I get older, I start to get more cool.

Middle age is the optimal time for insight and intelligence to increase.
Record and immerse yourself in your life
The power of a reflective journal to reflect on your life and transform your old age.
On Grit, the Greatest Weapon of Middle Age
Let go of the impatient nature that leads to dark history and mistakes.
6 Steps to Eliminating Worries
A respected person is better at asking questions than answering them.
The Alchemy of Anger: Controlling Your Inner Anger

Chapter 5: As I got older, I started to become happier.

Emergency treatment for extreme stress and frustration
What do people who live long, happy, and healthy lives have in common?
How to be realistically happy, not just a fleeting happiness
If you want to be elegant until you die, develop adaptability.
How to live a happy and secure life
The more empty and depressed you feel, the more self-care you need to do.
4 Types of Reactions to Misfortune and How to Cope

“Raise the hidden inner strength of the fifty!”
33 Secrets to a Deeper, More Powerful Life

If you've lived your life as someone's child, someone's spouse, or someone's parent, fifty, exactly halfway to 100, is a good time to take care of yourself and reclaim your name.
Ho-seon Lee, the director of the Korea Senior Counseling Center and a researcher on middle-aged and older adults, has met countless people who are wandering in their middle ages.
Many people only begin to properly look at their own aging when they are in their forties or fifties.
He looks middle-aged to anyone who sees him, and although he is not sick, he is not very energetic.
Even if you have a brilliant career, it is difficult to find a job with a career, your interpersonal relationships are dwindling, you have aging parents to support, and your children are starting to become independent at the age of fifty.
But if you think about it the other way around, fifty is only half of being 100 years old, and it is a time to be free from money, relationships, spouses, and children, and to continue a vibrant social life and private gatherings.
Aging and freedom: life after fifty can vary depending on where you focus.
This book contains 33 secrets to living a deeper, more powerful life, slowing down the aging of the mind and allowing you to fully enjoy freedom.


Professor David Bainbridge of Cambridge University compared the intelligence of young and middle-aged groups and said this.
“Only in middle age do we acquire wisdom, reason, and memory like God.” The ability to judge and understand people, the world, and events was significantly higher in the middle-aged group.
There is another study.
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University announced in the Seattle Longitudinal Study that middle age is the period when overall and comprehensive intelligence is at its highest.
Fifty, when one's ability to judge and discern people, the world, and events is at its peak, is the best age to look back on one's life and plan for life after fifty.
Based on numerous consultations and research, the author has included in this book the secrets to enhancing the experiences and abilities of middle-aged people.
Let's bring out the inner strength hidden within us through this book.

"For middle-aged people, self-mentoring is essential."
The art of self-mentoring: reflection → introspection → care

We need to stop looking at other people's lives and standards and examine ourselves and build new relationships for our true selves, for our own enjoyment and happiness.
How can I live the next 50 years well? How can I live a more youthful, vibrant, and mature middle age? Is it truly a good life when every day feels dull and empty? Middle age means seeing only the same family and friends, making it difficult to form new relationships, and there's no one to offer advice.
Therefore, as we age, we must engage in self-mentoring to live a dignified life.


Self-mentoring is looking inside yourself, examining yourself, thinking about how you should change in the future, and putting that change into practice.
This book is full of very specific and practical methods you can put into practice right now.
Let's get to know ourselves through those methods and the diagnostic tests included in this book, and write a reflection journal.
A reflection journal is a tool for self-mentoring, and consists of three parts: 'self-observation' (writing in detail about what happened according to the six principles of 'H'), 'self-awareness' (writing about why it happened), and 'self-evaluation' (writing about how this will turn out in the future, what I should do, and what will change then).
Let's use these three to establish the direction and standards of our lives.


In addition, it covers coping strategies and solutions for situations that middle age often faces, from the very everyday, such as becoming popular at gatherings, communicating with family, and forming new relationships, to special cases, such as empty nest syndrome, depression, and panic attacks.
Readers will naturally experience self-reflection, which leads to self-care, simply by reading this book.

"Fifty, the feast has begun."
For the fifty years of enjoying true freedom as myself

Until I was fifty, I devoted my youth, blood, sweat, tears, and even my own marrow to raising children, contributing to society, and striving to achieve something.
So, when you turn fifty, you often find yourself living under obligations.
But at times like these, a new challenge is needed.
Poet Choi Young-mi said, "At thirty, the party is over," but the author says that the real party begins only when one reaches middle age.
Because true freedom begins when you dream of change and put it into action.
"The Art of Fifty" is a book that helps me regain my lost existence and reclaim the prime of my life.
Now, let's learn the fifty techniques one by one by reading this book.
You will regain your prime, shining brighter than your youth.