At work, you're evaluated by work metrics. Resources, presentation, numbers. Survive long there, and work's measuring stick becomes yours. You forget you exist outside it. One person noticed this around forty and started a small tradition. Twice yearly, three people met. All different fields. One hour, they shared: what worked this half, what didn't, what's next.
Five years later, when the company shook their evaluation down, they didn't shake with it.