Gary Direnfeld

Oh, boy.

These are seen as milestone birthdays, but there's something about 40 that, you know, leaving your 30s, entering your 40s, where people say, am I where I want to be?

Have I lost my youth?

Why do you think so many guys go out and, as you said, buy the motorcycle, buy the fancy car?

Another friend said to me, whatever you do, Gary, don't buy a car.

Those payments last for years.

Buy yourself a leather jacket.

It's a one-off purchase.

So talk about an existential crisis that is signaling to you the the freedom of your youth.

I got to tell you, first of all, I so admire you, David, because you ask such good questions.

And yes, you can do good out of this.

So, you know, at 40, under the advice of my psychologist, a friend of mine, I did ditch the beard.

And it took me about four to six weeks before I said to heck with this and I grew it back.

I got over my crisis.

So your question before the break was, you know, what good could come of this in a sense?

You know, is there something positive as an outcome of this midlife crisis?

Yeah, absolutely.

If you are in a relationship, by the way, and you're going through this midlife crisis, I hope, because not everyone has this in their relationship, but I hope that this is something that you can actually discuss with your partner and that your partner takes it seriously.

So if you have that kind of partner, you can kind of

problem solve and talk it through together.