The Inc. Tank Podcast | Chip Conley: Modern Elders in Business

September 15, 2020

“The historical idea was you had three stages. Learn till you’re 25, earn ‘til you’re 65, retire ‘til you die. That model, if you talk to a millennial about that model, they look at you like, “What are you talking about? I’m gonna work and then I’m gonna take a sabbatical, and then I’m gonna go back and start a company.” They don’t see it as a linear progression. They see it as a portfolio life.”

Chip Conley, founder and CEO of the Modern Elder Academy, talks with hosts Christina Elson and David Yang about the new world of long-life learning, the concept of the radical sabbatical, and the wisdom that midlife can offer.

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