Boundless potential : transform your brain, unleash your talents, reinvent your work in midlife and beyond / Mark Walton.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-246) and index.

"There's no better time than now to remake your career and life. Neuroscience research reveals that creativity spikes in our later years--making midlife an ideal time to change professions. This breakthrough career-reinvention guide shows workers in their forties and over how to leverage this newfound potential. Boundless Potential empowers you with the knowledge, inspiration, and tools to kick-start anything from a new entrepreneurial venture to a new career. Using case studies, interviews, and revelations from cutting-edge research, it offers a blueprint for personal and work reinvention in midlife and a glimpse of the true lifelong potential of the human mind. Mark S. Walton is a professor of leadership in the U.S. Navy's Advanced Management Program and a distinguished lecturer in management at the Senior Executive Institute and Kenan-Flagler Graduate Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His book Generating Buy-In was selected by Soundview Executive Summaries as one of the Top 30 business books of the year"-- Provided by publisher.

Machine generated contents note: part 1 THE REINVENTIVE PROCESS -- chapter 1 The New Normal -- Meeting on the Edge of Tomorrow -- chapter 2 Where Is Your Fascination? -- Success Story: Sherwin B. Nuland -- chapter 3 A Blueprint for Reinvention -- The Secret of Reinventive Work -- chapter 4 Structuring Your Future -- Success Story: Horace Deets -- chapter 5 Diverted to the Desert -- How America Got Hooked on Retirement -- part 2 THE SCIENCE OF LIFELONG SUCCESS -- chapter 6 The Magic Touch -- Success Story: Marion Rosen -- chapter 7 The Neuroscience of Potential -- Why We're Hardwired to Reinvent -- chapter 8 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt -- Success Story: Gil Garcetti -- part 3 HAPPINESS BUILT TO LAST -- chapter 9 Eugeria -- How Paying It Forward Pays You Back -- chapter 10 The Road to Reinvention -- Success Story: Rita K. Spina -- chapter 11 The Encore Manifesto -- Leveraging the Age Wave -- chapter 12 Realizing Your Potential -- Lessons for Getting Started.

The reinventive process. The new normal ; Where is your fascination? ; A blueprint for reinvention ; Structuring your future ; Diverted to the desert -- The science of lifelong success. The magic touch ; The neuroscience of potential ; Beyond a reasonable doubt -- Happiness built to last. Eugeria ; The road to reinvention ; The encore manifesto ; Realizing your potential -- Epilogue. The rhythm of reinvention.