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Chip Conley is the founder of the Modern Elder Academy (MEA). They have a series of workshops and programs designed to help people navigate midlife transitions, and really tap into the wisdom that’s available to us at this point in our lives.
Chip is also the author of Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age. And a lot of his work focuses on dispelling the myths that we’re led to believe about midlife. We talk about a few of those today, and some pretty interesting—and optimistic—data on what actually happens in midlife.
We talk about how, in midlife, we have an opportunity to move from constant knowledge gathering into transforming all that knowledge into something more useful: wisdom. We talk about how we’re both a little allergic to the word “purpose,” and why Chip prefers to think of it in verb tense, as being purposeful.
Chip shares the MEA theory that we have three vaults in which we can speak and communicate from. And how part of our process of growing up is moving from fact to story to essence.
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