How Gen Xers Can Reclaim the Future

At last! A book that speaks directly to Gen Xers' anxieties about the future by showing how the decades ahead are not a problem to be solved but an invaluable asset-an unprecedented opportunity to reclaim financial freedom, meaning and well-being.

In The Longevity Bonus, Peabody Award winner and Fortune 100 management consultant Mark S. Walton, author of the national bestseller Unretired, offers a practical roadmap for thriving in the new age of longevity. Drawing on the latest social and neuroscientific research, along with real-life stories and personal interviews, he reveals the emerging potential of midlife and beyond.

Gen Xers grew up amid rising divorce rates, disappearing pensions, dot-com busts, the 9/11 attacks, the Great Recession, and COVID. Today, they face economic disruptions, the emergence of AI, career derailments, and a spiraling cost of living.

Yet their response to tough times has always been a pragmatic, adaptable, and self-reliant resolve.

As Kiplinger, the pioneering personal finance journal, notes: "The realities they face could spur a pivotal moment in how Americans view the later phases of life. It may be that a traditional retirement is a non-starter for many people. But that's not necessarily bad news."

Far from it, as you will discover for yourself in The Longevity Bonus.

MARK S. WALTON is a Peabody Award Winning journalist and Fortune 100 management consultant whose career has spanned more than five decades at the highest levels of business, media, government and the military. His previous books include Generating Buy-In: Mastering the Language of Leadership, Boundless Potential: Reinvent Your Work in Midlife and Beyond on which a nationwide PBS Television Special was based, and Unretired: How Highly Effective People Live Happily Ever After.