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Book Review: How to Re-attire Your Retirement & Embrace Life 2.0 by Dr. Dilip Ganguly

Retirement is not the end of an active life. In fact, no one can retire till their last breathe. Many people confuse retirement with Life 2.0, thinking both are same. However, that’s not the case. Retirement literally epitomizes the end of life on the planet i.e. dead. On the other hand, Life 2.0 is a life that one lives after retiring from a long spell of working job and service in a particular field.


This book by Dr. Dilip Ganguly re-instates the belief that Life 2.0 is not that short duration anymore as people expect. All over the world, life expectancy has increased, so does the longevity of Life 2.0 or second innings. Life after retirement, nowadays, stretches up to 40 years, which is as good as Life 1.0, where a person regularly goes to office and work site and follows a predictable schedule and routinely work. The book throws a question – so why does everything come to stand still just the next day after retirement? It is a matter of concern and demands thought-provoking justification.

The book tries to answer all the questions related to Life 2.0 or say life post retirement. The utility of the book ranges in quite a number of topics it covers with limelight on terms like retirement, retirees, Life 1.0 & 2.0. Brimming with 13 useful chapters, the book is segmented into author’s personal stories, tales of successful and inspiring people leading Life 2.0, and tasks and activities for the readers and much more. Being pragmatic while narrating the scaffold of the book, it comes out that the author personally faced challenges post retirement…he recounts the days of learning computer operations and internet browsing.

The author compares life before and after retirement. He draws a big difference in both and that is not a good sign for our society. However, the USP of the book is how to rise above all challenges in Life 2.0. The book introduces many facades of life and shows that one can grow old with ageing but not retire with ageing.

The foremost appeal is to replace the term retirement with Life 2.0 or second innings. The author is of the opinion that Life 2.0 should be planned before one retires from the office/services/job.

It can be done with SWOT analysis. It is a wonderful tool that can be used in all spheres of life. Next is that to keep oneself motivated in Life 2.0 for working or carrying out a passion or being with family – one should go the Ikigai way. The second most featured aspect in the book is health. The author didn’t shy away from saying that health is a major challenge in retirement life. It steers one’s activities and goals. However, with a doctor’s help, this topic has been covered with useful insights. The book is not a banal saga of an old man – in snatches it promises fun by quoting lovely examples, short poems, and incidents from life. You would sigh in appreciation for the author for his stance on retirement, a below excerpt from the book, perfectly nudges the objective of the book.

“The bottom line is that the old rules were built for a society in which retirement was seen as a release from bondage, liberation from a lifetime of work. The term was built for a time when most of the work was manual and labour-intensive and the brain was at a lesser valuation than brown.”

Coping with retirement could be tough and not all can accept the challenges it brings with, yet in this time of modern contemporariness one can avail the help of retirement coaches and counselors, as one would do in Life 1.0.

In retirement phase people think of money, however, the author makes them count a few more aspects that can help them living a smooth Life 2.0. Before concluding the review, it should be implemented in our dogmatism that retirement is Life 2.0 with hope, positivity, activities, and love.

Buy the book from Amazon India, Kindle Store, and Notion Press.

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