Chip Conley

I grew up in a household where we revered multigrain bread for its digestive benefits. In that same spirit of variety, a growing number of us seem to be appreciating multi-gen households for their collaborative benefits.

How do we articulate our values as we age in the workplace? Do we cite our history or outline a future that takes advantage of our career lineage? While both answers play central roles in today’s typical resume, I have to believe that our current language doesn’t quite capture what we truly have to offer. The problem starts with the word “resume” itself.

I recently ran across this BBC article: “Can You Delay Aging By Refusing To Act Your Age?” Need I tell you how much I hated the title? What does it mean to act one’s age, anyway?! That said, I loved the content of the piece, which offered two more studies that reinforce Yale’s Becca Levy’s research which shows that changing your mindset on aging can provide you with a longer and better life.

Anyone who’s spent ample time with me in the past dozen years has heard me proselytize about sociologist Emile Durkheim’s term “collective effervescence,” based upon what he observed at religious pilgrimages more than a century ago. As a Board member of Burning Man, I often spoke about the magic that occurs when people’s sense of ego separation dissolves and is replaced by a communal sense of joy.

I loved my recent Canadian Rockies and Pacific Northwest vacation, especially amidst a scorching heat wave. Hiking an average of 15-20,000 steps a day in the lush tree canopy woke me up in all kinds of ways, with nature as my inspiring teacher.

A new study has been released under the title of this blog post that should remind society why elderhood is an important life stage, not just to those of us entering it, but to society as a whole.

The late author Mary Catherine Bateson suggested that our extra longevity doesn’t mean we’ll be older longer. Instead, it means our midlife is extended.

Over the last five days of July, the media shouted “breaking news” that Paul Sorvino (83), Tony Dow (77), Pat Carroll (95), Nichelle Nichols (89), and Bill Russell (88) had passed away. These sad news breaks came in one-a-day between July 26-31.

What if we could add 45 billion years of higher-quality life globally, or six years per person, by just taking a few public health steps? That is the premise of a new McKinsey study that I highly recommend our Wisdom Well geeks devour sooner rather than later.

I mentioned “The Soul of Money” author Lynne Twist in a recent Wisdom Well. I was writing about her in the context of how we serve the world. When Lynne taught at MEA last December, she spoke of money or currency being like water.