Chip Conley is an award-winning hospitality entrepreneur, business and psychology thought leader and New York Times best-selling author, deemed “Most Innovative CEO” by the San Francisco Business Times. Chip is the Strategic Advisor for Hospitality and Leadership for Airbnb, and formerly served as the company’s Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy. He is the founder of the Modern Elder Academy, as well as Joie de Vivre Hospitality, where he served as CEO for 24 years.  Chip is on the Stanford Center for Longevity’s advisory board and has written five books, including Wisdom@Work, Emotional Equations, and PEAK.  

Chip joins me today to share his insights on embracing elderhood, aging, and life satisfaction. He highlights the distinction between elders and the elderly, when adolescence became coined as a term and life stage, and the more recent concept of “middlescence.” He explains how our perspectives change as we age and how he defines the ‘u-curve of happiness.’ Chip also shares the strengths that different age groups bring to the table and why embracing age diversity is so effective.

“The more digital we get, the more ritual we need.”  – Chip Conley

This week on The School for Good Living Podcast:

• Characteristics of the first and second half of life and
  realizations people tend to have in midlife
• Chip’s encounters with death and the perspective he gained
  through his experiences
• What the u-curve of happiness is and how life satisfaction and
  happiness shift over time
• The difference between attainment and attunement
• Chip’s love of festivals, his insight into the festival world,
  and trends he has noticed
• How our perspectives change as we get older and how our brains
  change and evolve as we age
• The power of embracing age diversity by working together across
  generations
• What elderhood truly means and what prepares people for
  elderhood
• How society regards the elder of the past versus the modern
  elder
• The importance of human-to-human interaction no matter what type
  of company you run
• What psychological safety looks and how it helps build effective
  teams

Resources Mentioned:

• Wisdom@Work: The Making of a Modern Elder by Chip Conley
• Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success by Chip Conley
• PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow by Chip Conley
• The Enneagram Institute
• Google’s Project Aristotle

Connect
with Chip Conley:

• Chip Conley
• Modern Elder Academy
• Wisdom Well
• Chip Conley on Instagram
• Chip Conley on Twitter
• Chip Conley on LinkedIn
• Chip Conley on Facebook
• Modern Elder Academy Facebook Group

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