2024-09-23
1 小时 0 分钟Instead of just learning how to grow old, we're learning how to grow whole.
When you hang out with someone who has presence and is 75, 85, 95 years old, what you notice about that person is that they are alchemically whole.
They are not compartmentalized in being present.
They feel like they have somehow taken all of these constituent parts of who they are and who they've been and how they've lived their life and woven them into this potent mix of this human.
You get to that stage, there's a radiant being that you have become.
So imagine a world where midlife isn't some crisis to endure, but an invitation, even a sacred initiation into your deepest wisdom and most vibrant potential and genuine happiness and peace of mind.
For many, that vision feels a bit like a mirage.
Oh, sure, nice in theory, but completely out of reach and out of touch with the real world experience of that season of life.
But what if it wasn't?
What if no matter how our bodies and our health and our relationships and our work and environment change, we still had the capacity and the tools to make what has now become the longest season of our lives the best?
That's where I'm headed today with my guest and friend, Chip Conley, who's a bit of a midlife visionary and best selling author of Learning to love twelve reasons why life gets better as we age.
So, as a successful entrepreneur who founded the Joie de Vivre boutique hotel brand and more recently, the Modern Elders academy with campuses in Baja and Santa Fe, Chip experienced his own radical midlife metamorphosis.
And this journey, it sparked a deeper calling to explore and share insights about the profound transitions of midlife and so many of the things that we get wrong but could get right.
So Chip has distilled wisdom from leading research and personal transformations of thousands of people across the globe.
He's developed innovative approaches to help people really embrace midlife, not just as changes thrust upon them, but as this remarkable invitation to wholeness, one that can transform fear into possibility, confusion into clarity and stagnation, into renewed purpose.
In today's conversation, Chip walks us through twelve critical insights with a lot of signs and stories to back them up that have been transformative in helping to not only survive the challenges of this season of life, but to thrive in lasting alignment with really who you are authentically becoming as we move into the middle and later seasons of life.
So excited to share this conversation with you.
I'm Jonathan Fields and this is good life project.
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