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| Abandoned under full sail |
Retirement
looms…
Bruce: You left 10 years ago. Any pointers?
Michael: People
won’t see you as having power, or being useful, simply view you as old, so
they’ll talk to you less.
Bruce: I’ll
be less relevant.
Michael: It’s
been called a relevancy discrepancy, no, that’s not it. Oh, what’s the word?
Bruce: Deficiency?
Michael:
No. Divestment? Nope.
Bruce: Despair?
Michael: Relevancy deprivation. That was it. Ah, this Teflon memory. Nothing sticks.
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Voice-over
Relevancy deprivation: Said
to have been coined by Australian politician Gareth Evans after losing office
in 1996, it refers to the sense of deficit after someone who has invested a lot
in their career, is ousted. Perhaps it is the corollary of “what you put in you
get out.” The amount you put into a career is proportional to the sense of loss
when it ends. Unless you find a new ship.
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