https://sundayeveningreview.com/tags/mastery/Recent content in Mastery on Sunday Evening ReviewHugoen-usTue, 14 Jul 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/ideas/hobbies-for-older-men/Tue, 14 Jul 2026 06:00:00 -0500https://sundayeveningreview.com/ideas/hobbies-for-older-men/<p>Somewhere around 1968, in the aftermath of one of the first large waves of early retirement from American manufacturing, a vocational psychologist followed forty-seven men for two years. The company she worked for had expanded its early retirement program; men with thirty years of service could leave at fifty-eight with a full pension. Her job was to understand what happened next.</p> <p>She tracked health metrics, depression screenings, marriage quality, what they said they were doing with their days. At the end of two years she had an answer, and it was the same answer that has kept appearing in the research on retirement ever since.</p>