Chip Conley

Curing aging is a popular narrative amongst the tech and finance intelligentsia, even though we haven’t cured the common cold yet, or cancer, or Alzheimer’s. Of course, it doesn’t matter. The 1-percenters want more years added onto their lives, and so the “live forever” research gets more and more funding.

I gave a talk in Charleston, South Carolina, not long ago to a company that had asked me about the qualities I most admire in great organizations.

I’m betting most of us tune up our cars every year or two. The same way we regularly tune up our bodies through meditation, massage, or some other somatic treatment. But how often do we recalibrate our emotions and nervous system?

I was fortunate enough to be asked by the six founders of Burning Man to join their inaugural non-profit Board a dozen years ago.

If you knew you only had five years left to live and money and time were not a problem, where would you visit and why? As I say in this video from Fly Ranch Geyser at the end of the blog post, your passion isn't just something you care deeply about, it's something you're willing to sacrifice for.

"I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona."

On the one hand, it’s depressing to read the stats of this Fast Company article on how many Americans are struggling with midlife. On the other hand, it’s encouraging to see this kind of sociological overview in a popular business magazine.

Age is a cruel master. That seems to be society’s narrative. We often retort, "Age is just a number," as if we’re oblivious to the relationship between age and health. But there are three numbers that do matter. For simplicity, these three numbers exclusively use only two digits: a 4 and a 7.

One of my favorite books on learning is "A More Beautiful Question" by Warren Berger, which is in the MEA library here in Baja. Berger cites Paul Harris, a Harvard child psychologist and author, who says that a child asks about 40,000 questions between the ages of two and five.

It’s rare that I use my daily blog to let you know about a great opportunity but this feels like a good fit for so many of you. Encore.org has opened up applications for their second cohort of the Gen2Gen Innovation Fellowship.