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In this inspiring and candid book, Jane Fonda, #1 bestselling author, actress, and workout pioneer, gives us a blueprint for living well and for making the most of life, especially the second half of it. Covering sex, love, food, fitness, self-understanding, spiritual and social growth, and your brain. In Prime Time, she offers a vision for successful living and maturing, A to Z.

Highlighting new research and stories from her own life and from the lives of others, Jane Fonda explores how the critical years from 45 and 50, and especially from 60 and beyond, can be times when we truly become the energetic, loving, fulfilled people we were meant to be. Covering the 11 key ingredients for vital living, Fonda invites you to consider with her how to live a more insightful, healthy, and fully integrated life, a life lived more profoundly in touch with ourselves, our bodies, minds, and spirits, and with our talents, friends, and communities.

In her research, Fonda discovered two metaphors, the arch and the staircase, that became for her two visions of life. She shows how to see your life the staircase way, as one of continual ascent. She explains how she came to understand the earlier decades of her life by performing a life review, and she shows how you can do a life review too. She reveals how her own life review enabled her to let go of old patterns, to see what means the most to her, and then to cultivate new goals and dreams, to make the most of the mature years. For there has been a longevity revolution, and the average human life expectancy has jumped by years. Fonda asks, what we are meant to do with this precious gift of time? And she writes about how we can navigate the fertile voids that life periodically presents to us. She makes suggestions about exercise (including three key movements for optimal health), diet (how to eat by color), meditation, and how learning new things and creating fresh pathways in your brain can add quality to your life. Fonda writes of positivity, and why many people are happier in the second half of their lives than they have ever been before.

In her #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, My Life So Far, Jane Fonda focused on the first half of her extraordinary life—what she called Acts I and II—with an eye toward preparing for a vibrant Act III. Now we have a thoughtfully articulated memoir and guide for how to make all of your life, and especially Act III, Prime Time.

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Jane Fonda is an Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress and highly successful producer. She revolutionized the fitness industry with the Jane Fonda Workout in 1982 and has sold more than seventeen million copies of her fitness-focused books, videos, and recordings. She is involved with several causes and is the founder of both the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention and the Jane Fonda Center at Emory University. She is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller My Life So Far, and she received a Tony nomination in 2009 for her role in 33 Variations. She lives in Los Angeles.

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PREFACE

The Arch and the Staircase

The past empowers the present, and the groping

footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways

to the future.

—Mary Catherine Bateson

Several years ago, i was coming to the end of my sixties

and facing my seventies, the second decade of what I thought of as

the Third Act of my life— Act III, which, as I see it, begins at age

sixty. I was worried. Being in my sixties was one thing. Given good

health, we can fudge our sixties. But seventy—now, that’s serious.

In our grandparents’ time, people in their seventies were considered

part of the “old old” . . . on their way out.

However, a revolution has occurred within the last century—

a longevity revolution. Studies show that, on average, thirty- four

years have been added to human life expectancy, moving it from an

average of forty- six years to eighty! This addition represents an

entire second adult lifetime, and whether we choose to confront it

or not, it changes everything, including what it means to be human.

Adding a Room

The social anthropologist (and a friend of mine) Mary Catherine

Bateson has a metaphor for living with this longer life span in view.

She writes in her recent book

Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active

Wisdom,

“We have not added decades to life expectancy by simply

extending old age; instead, we have opened up a new space partway

through the life course, a second and different kind of adulthood

that precedes old age, and as a result every stage of life is undergoing

change.” Bateson uses the identifi able metaphor of what happens

when a new room is added to your home. It isn’t just the new

room that is different; every other part of the house and how it is

used is altered a bit by the addition of this room.

In the house that is our life, things such as planning, marriage,

love, fi nances, parenting, travel, education, physical fi tness, work,

retirement—our very identities, even!—all take on new meaning

now that we can expect to be vital into our eighties and nineties

. . . or longer.

But our culture has not come to grips with the ways the longevity

revolution has altered our lives. Institutionally, so much of how

we do things is the same as it was early in the twentieth century,

with our lives segregated into age- specifi c silos: During the fi rst

third we learn, during the second third we produce, and the last

third we presumably spend on leisure. Consider, instead, how it

would look if we tore down the silos and integrated the activities.

For example, let’s begin to think of learning and working as a lifelong

challenge instead of something that ends when you retire.

What if the wonderfully empowering feeling of being productive

can be experienced by children early in life, and if they know from

fi rst grade that education will be an expected part of their entire

lives? What if the second, traditionally productive silo is braided

with leisure and education? And seniors, with twenty or more productive

years left, can enjoy leisure time while remaining in the

workforce in some form and attending to education if for no other

reason than to challenge their minds? Envisioned this way, longevity

becomes like a symphony with echoes of different times recurring

with slight modifi cations, as in music, across the life arc.

Except that we don’t have the sheet music to this new symphony.

We— today’s boomers and seniors— are the pioneer generations,

the ones who need to compose together a template for how

to maximize the potential of this amazing gift of time, so as to

become whole, fully realized people over the longer life arc.

In attempting to chart a course for myself into my sixties and

beyond, I’ve found it helpful to view the symphony of my own life

in three acts, or three major developmental stages: Act I, the fi rst

three decades; Act II, the middle three decades; and Act III, the

fi nal three decades (or however many more years one is granted).

As I searched for ways to understand the new realities of aging,

I discovered the arch and the staircase.

The Arch and the Staircase

Here you see two diagrams that I have had drawn, because they

make visualizable two conceptions of human life that have come to

mean a lot to me.

One diagram, the arch, represents a biological concept, taking

us from childhood to a middle peak of maturity, followed by a

decline into infi rmity.

The other, a staircase, shows our potential for upward progression

toward wisdom, spiritual growth, learning— toward, in other

words, consciousness and soul.

The vision behind these diagrams was developed by Rudolf Arnheim,

the late professor emeritus of the psychology of art at Harvard

University, and for me they are clear metaphors for ways we can choose

to view aging. Our youth- obsessed culture encourages us to focus

on the arch—age as physical decline— more than on the stairway— age

as potential for continued development and ascent. But it is the stairway

that points to late life’s promise, even in the face of physical

decline. Perhaps it should be a spiral staircase! Because the wisdom,

balance, refl ection, and compassion that this upward movement represents

don’t just come to us in one linear ascension; they circle around

us, beckoning us to keep climbing, to keep looking both back and

ahead.

Rehearsing the Future

Throughout my life, whenever I was confronted by something I

feared, I tried to make it my best friend, stare it in the face, and get

to know its ins and outs. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “You gain

strength, courage, and confi dence by every experience in which you

really stop to look fear in the face.” I have found this to be true.

This is how I discovered that knowledge about what lies ahead can

empower me, help me conquer my fears, take the wind out of the

sails of my anxiety. Know thine enemy! Remember Rumpelstiltskin,

the evil dwarf in the Grimms’ fairy tale? He was destroyed

once the miller’s daughter learned his name and called it out. When

we name our fears, bring them out into the open, and examine

them in the light, they weaken and wither.

So, one of the ways I have tried to overcome my fears of aging

involved rehearsing for it. In fact, I started doing this in Act II. I

believe that this rehearsal for the future (along with doing a life

review of the past) is part of why I have been able— so far— to live

Act III with relative equanimity.

Being with my father when he was in his late seventies and in

decline due to heart problems was what began to shatter any childhood

illusions I’d had of immortality. I was in my mid- forties, and it

hit me that with him gone, I would be the oldest one left in the family

and, before too long, next at the turnstile. I realized then that it was

not so much the idea of death itself that frightened me as it was being

faced with regrets, the “what if”s and the “if only”s when there is no

time left to do anything about them. I didn’t want to arrive at the end

of the Third Act and discover too late all that I had not done.

I began to feel the need to project myself into the future, to

visualize who I wanted to be and what regrets I might have that I

would need to address before I got too old. I wanted to understand

as much as possible what cards age would deal me; what I could

realistically expect of myself physically; how much of aging was

negotiable; and what I needed to do to intervene on my own behalf

with what appeared to be a downward slope.

The birth of my two children had taught me the importance of

knowledge and preparation. The fi rst birth had been a terrifying,

lonely experience; I went through it unprepared and unrehearsed,

swept along passively in a sea of pain. The second birth was quite

the opposite. My husband and I worked with a birth educator in

the months leading up to my due date, so that I was able to visualize

what would happen and know what to do. The physical ordeal

was no less grueling, the process no faster, but the experience itself

was transformed. With knowledge and rehearsal, I found it easier

to ride atop the sequence of events rather than be totally submerged

by the pain.

I brought what I’d learned from childbirth to my experience

facing late midlife. As I said, I was scared back then— it is hard to

let go of children, of the success that came with youth, of old identities

when new ones aren’t yet clearly defi ned. I felt I could choose

whether to be blindly propelled into later life, in denial with my

eyes wide shut, or I could take charge and seek out what I needed

to know in order to make informed decisions in the many changing

areas of my life. That’s why, in 1984, at age forty- six, before I’d even

had my fi rst hot fl ash, I wrote

Women Coming of Age,

with Mignon

McCarthy, about what women can expect, physically, as they age,

and what parts of aging are negotiable. It was a way to force myself

to confront and rehearse the future. I was shocked to discover how

little research had been devoted to women’s health. Most medical

studies I found had been done on men. I’m happy to say this has

started to change.

At forty- six, I began to envision the old woman I wished to be,

and I described her in that book:

I see an old woman wal...                                                               

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书籍介绍

In this inspiring and candid book, Jane Fonda, #1 bestselling author, actress, and workout pioneer, gives us a blueprint for living well and for making the most of life, especially the second half of it. Covering sex, love, food, fitness, self-understanding, spiritual and social growth, and your brain. In Prime Time, she offers a vision for successful living and maturing, A to Z.

Highlighting new research and stories from her own life and from the lives of others, Jane Fonda explores how the critical years from 45 and 50, and especially from 60 and beyond, can be times when we truly become the energetic, loving, fulfilled people we were meant to be. Covering the 11 key ingredients for vital living, Fonda invites you to consider with her how to live a more insightful, healthy, and fully integrated life, a life lived more profoundly in touch with ourselves, our bodies, minds, and spirits, and with our talents, friends, and communities.

In her research, Fonda discovered two metaphors, the arch and the staircase, that became for her two visions of life. She shows how to see your life the staircase way, as one of continual ascent. She explains how she came to understand the earlier decades of her life by performing a life review, and she shows how you can do a life review too. She reveals how her own life review enabled her to let go of old patterns, to see what means the most to her, and then to cultivate new goals and dreams, to make the most of the mature years. For there has been a longevity revolution, and the average human life expectancy has jumped by years. Fonda asks, what we are meant to do with this precious gift of time? And she writes about how we can navigate the fertile voids that life periodically presents to us. She makes suggestions about exercise (including three key movements for optimal health), diet (how to eat by color), meditation, and how learning new things and creating fresh pathways in your brain can add quality to your life. Fonda writes of positivity, and why many people are happier in the second half of their lives than they have ever been before.

In her #1 New York Times bestselling memoir, My Life So Far, Jane Fonda focused on the first half of her extraordinary life—what she called Acts I and II—with an eye toward preparing for a vibrant Act III. Now we have a thoughtfully articulated memoir and guide for how to make all of your life, and especially Act III, Prime Time .