Author and professor Arthur C. Brooks helps you navigate the transition through middle age, exploring how to shift professional success into a richer, deeper life.

Some call it a midlife crisis: You wake up in your 40s and realize you're unhappy and that you're not as good at your job as you used to be, even though you've had amazing career success.

Social science research has found that nearly everyone goes through a natural professional decline in middle age.

But this research doesn't fit with the Western work ethic that says high achievers should stay that way their whole lives.

In From Strength to Strength: Finding Happiness and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life, high achiever Arthur C. Brooks delves into the psychology behind those 'strivers' who hit the decline.

Brooks lays out a path to finding deeper meaning in work, life, and relationships to make the second half of life even better than the first.