{"product_id":"김미경의-마흔-수업","title":"Kim Mi-kyung's Lessons for Your Forties","description":"Description\n★ The expanded edition of the 2023 bestseller chosen by 200,000 readers, Kim Mi-kyung's Lessons for Your Forties ★\nA complete guide covering everything from redefining your forties to concrete methods for change!\n★ The Miracle Routine B.O.D, distilling 30 years of Kim Mi-kyung's self-development know-how, revealed for the first time\n\nThe book that changed the paradigm of turning forty\nIn this new era where we live to 100, if you want to keep your life in balance—subtract 17 years from your current age!\n\nRising to the top of the bestseller charts for 22 consecutive weeks in the first half of 2023 and sparking a nationwide \"forties boom\" in Korea, Kim Mi-kyung's Lessons for Your Forties is a book that changed how an entire generation thinks about turning forty. Until now, forty has been synonymous with \"completion\" or \"stability\"—seen as both the peak of life and the beginning of the downhill slope toward retirement and old age. But what is the reality? Far from stable, people in their forties are frantically busy at work and at home, anxious about the future. With real estate prices only climbing higher, owning a home still feels like a distant dream. And with young children to raise and put through college, at least 30 more years of earning lie ahead.\n\nCaught between \"the forties I once imagined\" and \"the forties I'm actually living,\" many end up blaming themselves—falling into self-reproach, believing they failed to achieve stability because they weren't good enough. To Korea's forty-somethings, Kim Mi-kyung offers these words for the first time:\n\n\"You haven't lived wrong. The only thing that's wrong is the fixed idea that by forty you must have achieved everything and found stability. Forty is an age of becoming, not an age of completion.\"\n\nThis isn't simply meant to comfort people in their forties. It means we can no longer view today's forty-somethings through the lens of 30 years ago, when the average lifespan was 80. In this era of 100-year lifespans, the position and role of people in their forties within the life cycle has changed dramatically. In this expanded edition, Kim Mi-kyung goes so far as to say: \"Subtract 17 years from your age.\" The \"median age\"—the age at the midpoint when a population is lined up by birth year—was 29 in Korea in 1994, according to the National Statistical Office, but by 2023 it had risen to 46, a 17-year gap over three decades. Because the second half of life has grown so much longer, she argues, subtracting 17 years brings your emotional and lifestyle age in line with reality. Living with that kind of dynamism, she says, is how you maintain balance throughout a hundred-year life. This is the most realistic advice—and the greatest comfort—that could only come from Kim Mi-kyung, a mentor to Korean women who herself lives as though she were 42. The 200,000 readers who have read this book say that her willingness to shatter the fixed notions surrounding forty gave them new hope and courage.\n\nLearning after forty must be different!\nThe Miracle Routine B.O.D, distilling 30 years of Kim Mi-kyung's self-development know-how, revealed for the first time\n\nThis expanded edition serves as a kind of \"supplementary class\" alongside readers. After publishing Kim Mi-kyung's Lessons for Your Forties, the author launched a weekly Monday program called \"Miracle Morning.\" Through her exchanges there with countless people in their forties, she encountered new questions that the original book hadn't fully answered. Even after breaking free of the fixed notions about forty and subtracting 17 years from their age, one question remained unresolved: \"So what exactly should I do now?\"\n\nGood books and lectures are essential life lessons for people in their forties. But as with any kind of learning, simply moving through the material isn't enough to make it truly your own. Without time for self-directed review, reflection, and introspection, real growth doesn't happen. Even the comfort and courage offered by Kim Mi-kyung's Lessons for Your Forties can fade with time. So is there a way for readers to keep growing and healing on their own, through a kind of \"life self-study\"? The answer to this urgent question is the core content of the expanded edition: the Miracle Routine B.O.D.\n\nB.O.D stands for Being, Organizing, and Doing—a method for self-growth and healing that distills 30 years of Kim Mi-kyung's self-development expertise. For nearly three decades, she has kept a daily diary, using it to converse with her deepest inner self and to build a \"Miracle List\" for growth and healing. She used this diary to plan her days with intention and followed through with consistent action, keeping the promises she made to herself. This has been the driving force that kept her at the top of Korea's lecture circuit for 30 years. This expanded edition reveals the Miracle Routine B.O.D for the first time, with a newly added Chapter 5 explaining each element of B.O.D in detail, along with how to keep a diary. The author calls this \"the real learning of a true adult past forty,\" emphasizing that anyone who incorporates B.O.D into their life can take charge and live the life they truly want.\n\nA complete guide for your forties—\nfrom redefining the decade to mindset to concrete methods\n\nKim Mi-kyung's Lessons for Your Forties (Expanded Edition) is Korea's first complete guide for people in their forties, covering everything from redefining the decade to mindset shifts to concrete, actionable methods. The original four-part structure has been expanded to five parts in this edition, with roughly 70 additional pages.\n\nPart 1, \"To Those Exhausted by Anxiety, Even Today,\" explores why people grow anxious and depressed in their forties, and how and why our fixed notions about this decade are mistaken.\n\nPart 2, \"A Mindset That Makes Me Stronger,\" introduces the habits and attitudes needed to let go of anxiety and live your own life—from ending comparisons with others, to befriending yourself, creating your own personal interpretation of life, blocking out voices that limit your potential, and securing space and time for yourself.\n\nPart 3, \"Practicing Balance in Life,\" offers guidance on rebuilding relationships after forty, centered on marriage and raising children.\n\nPart 4, \"How to Connect Myself to a Second World,\" discusses the financial habits and career expansion you should begin preparing in your forties in order to preserve your dignity and live well into your fifties and beyond.\n\nThe newly added final section, Part 5, \"The Best Way to Create the Life You Want,\" explains in detail why you should subtract 17 years to match our changed era, offers a new definition of success and achievement, and lays out the Miracle Routine B.O.D for building the life you truly desire on your own terms.\n\nIf living to 100 is like reaching midnight, forty is only 9:36 in the morning.\nA book that gives certainty and courage to those in their forties who want to live a passionate life once again—it's not too late.\n\nWe live in an age where 100 years is the norm. If you map a hundred-year life onto a 24-hour clock, each year equals roughly 14 minutes and 24 seconds—which means age 40 falls at 9:36 in the morning, just after arriving at work and settling in to focus. Subtracting 17 years by lifestyle age, forty becomes just 23, and forty-nine becomes only 32.\n\nKim Mi-kyung, who turns 60 next year, lives as though she were exactly 42. In her twenties, her dream was to study abroad in America and live overseas—a dream she had to give up back then for lack of money. But she never let go of it, and thirty years later, entering her fifties, she began to seriously pursue the dream of \"lecturing in English in America.\" Now, at sixty, she has finally taken a step closer to that dream. Her three children are grown, her company is stable, and she has built a career strong enough to be invited to lecture abroad. Above all, this became possible because she began studying English through her Miracle Routine starting at age 55.\n\nBecause she doesn't just talk about it but demonstrates it through her own life, Kim Mi-kyung's words—coming from someone who has already lived through her forties—ignite genuine passion in her readers, offering the certainty and courage that it's not too late. If you want to love yourself to the very end and live a life that is truly your own, start preparing now. This book will cheer you on wholeheartedly toward your own shining forties.","brand":"IBOOKPARK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49696327303396,"sku":"08142026996","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/9788\/6692\/files\/9791198013064.jpg?v=1787370302","url":"https:\/\/ibookpark.com\/en\/products\/%ea%b9%80%eb%af%b8%ea%b2%bd%ec%9d%98-%eb%a7%88%ed%9d%94-%ec%88%98%ec%97%85","provider":"IBOOKPARK","version":"1.0","type":"link"}