The Modern Elder: Chip Conley On Reframing Midlife, Cultivating True Wisdom & Finding Purpose In Life's Second Half

We're living longer. How do I get older in a way that makes me feel good about myself? What if my best years are ahead of me? In between being young and becoming very old, there's a stage of life that is not well enough understood and gets far less attention. attention than it deserves.

That stage is midlife, one we tend to only consider for the kinds of crises it tends to provoke, instead of seeing it for the opportunities it presents and welcoming it for what it actually is, which when done right is an aspirational phase of life. Chip Conley is our expert in resonance on all things middle essence and today the founder of the Modern Elder Academy, which is the world's first Midlife Wisdom School is here for his third turn on the podcast to do what middle agers like myself are uniquely suited to do best, which is to share his wisdom as a modern elder on what matters most when it comes to our middle years. For so many people, they hit midlife and they sort of shut down. At least in adolescence, we're going through it with a peer group.

The kinds of things that we go through, the transitions of midlife in middle essence, we're going through often alone, but they're normal. So many of them are normal. How exactly do we best pursue this multi-decade period of life so that we don't succumb to crises, regret, and lament, and instead avail ourselves of the beautiful things that it presents so that we can live a deeper, more connected, fulfilling, meaningful, and purpose-driven life? I've got questions, Chip's got answers. a manifesto for middle age, in fact, which is the title of his beautiful latest book.

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