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Summary of Life is in the Transitions 

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There are times when we feel stuck and confused. Some moments make us question our existence and wonder if there’s any meaning to our lives. These moments are draining, frustrating, and tiring, but once we understand the power of transitions, we’ll find it easier to understand our questions. Transitions are essential to our growth, and everything you need to know about them is well explained in this summary. Bruce Feiler is an American writer and television personality. He is the author of 15 books. He writes the “This Life” column in the Sunday New York Times and is also the writer/presenter, “Walking the Bible and Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler.”

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The key to having a meaningful experience is in understanding the fact that life is nonlinear

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Many of us live our lives in ways that suggest that we believe it to be definite and predictable. Life is nonlinear, which means that it is unpredictable and non-static. The unpredictability of life has made many people feel lost and neglected. Life truly isn’t predictable, but with patience, it becomes understandable.

As we’ve progressed with civilization, we’ve found more questions and problems, and our naturally curious nature means we’re saddled with the responsibility of finding more answers and solutions. Our journey through life is now longer and more complicated. These changes expand on a daily basis, and more than ever, we’ve had to adjust and re-adjust.

In our quest to find answers and solutions, we’ve had to transition from understanding our reality, accepting it and living with it. Our realities are different, which means our lives are different, but no matter how different our lives are, we all have to go through the same transitions.

These transitions can be whole or in bits. They can be sudden or gradual, and they can be voluntary or involuntary, but one sure thing is that we’ll have to understand them because we’ll all experience them at some points in our lives.
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Every time we take a step forward, we revise and update our understanding of the world

The easiest way to understand this is to look back at the earliest cultures and how they understood how our lives should be shaped. There have been three significant evolutions in our understanding of life shape, which relates directly to our conception and perception of time. Over the years, we’ve shifted from living a life based on natural, cyclical time to one established on regular, mechanical times, followed by the more variable understanding of time as dynamic, unpredictable, and nonlinear.
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The peak realization of our time is that life is not as predictable as we expected it to be

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Every time we ask ourselves what the meaning of life is, we are subconsciously questioning our own existence

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The ability to understand our existence rests in our hands

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Life transitions are a necessary skill we must learn regardless of our age and situation

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Giving up our old mindsets helps us achieve a level of creativity that is otherwise hidden to us

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Sharing helps us create a communal responsibility that is mutually beneficial to us and our environments

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Life transitions require us to launch new projects, share our works, and unveil our unique selves

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