#201 - Andrew Scott - Society Has Everything Wrong About Ageing

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Scott is an economist and an author.

Society has never been so old and yet never had so long still to live. More women had children over the age of 40 than under the age of 20 in 2019 and 1 in 5 women born today will reach 100 years old.

What does this ageing globe mean for how we should see our life's journey? How should public policy be changed? And what are we going to do with all these old people (including ourselves)?

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0:00.0	Hi friends, welcome back. My guest today is Andrew Scott and we're talking about longevity.
0:06.2	Society has never been so old and also never had so long to live.
0:12.3	More women had children over the age of 40 than under the age of 20 in 2019.
0:19.9	And one in five women born today are going to live to be a hundred based on predictions for the UK population.
0:28.6	All of this means that our existing paradigms, what we think of as age, old, mid and young,
0:36.4	are pretty much out the window. Every generation that lives is eight years older than the generation before,
0:44.1	which means that every three generations lives for another generation.
0:48.5	All of these knowledge bombs, sadly, are not mine, but they're Andrews and you're going to get to hear this
0:53.2	and much more in this episode. He's a wonderful speaker. The book is fantastic. The new long life.
0:59.3	You're going to love this episode. So cool. We get into some stuff to do with society's interpretations of age,
1:05.0	how people can really refine their careers, lifelong learning, romance, everything. Really, really cool.
1:13.1	I am getting tons of messages about the Modern Wisdom Academy and this Monday, I've got the first ever
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1:24.8	hold of it before the episode on Monday. I want to get some feedback about the format and the way that it
1:29.2	looks and also gauge interest for how many people really want this academy product. I know that it's a lot of
1:34.4	you. I'm so excited about this. I don't think I've ever been so excited to get a project off the ground.
1:39.6	The opportunity to get the best podcast notes right is on the planet to summarise all the key
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1:52.3	day that the episode goes live gasses me up so much it's going to maximise everyone's retention.
1:58.3	It's going to supercharge your progress. I'm just so excited. I think there's another podcast on
2:03.6	the planet that's doing this. So yeah, this is going to be sick. Monday, you'll get to find out. You
2:09.6	also get the Oli March on episode notes. That's the one that we went for chose the Oli March on
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