Aging with Purpose • X55
Mind Love™ • Consciousness, Spirituality, and Science for Awakening
Melissa Monte | Conscious Coach
4.9 • 906 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
We will learn:
- What it really means to live the good life.
- How purpose changes from adulthood to elder hood.
- How to move from self-absorbed soul searching to a life of meaning.
Getting old is weird. Collectively we treat it like a disease. And I get why, most people live lifestyles that inevitably lead to disease, so we assume correlation is causation.
It’s easy to fall into complacency, consumption, cynicism.
The harder route is the one we take responsibility for, with choice, curiosity, and courage.
But what’s really more difficult? The choice that takes more work now but leads to a fulfilling life? Or the one that takes no effort now but creates a life you’d rather not be living?
And how do we make a choice to experience aging with purpose?
That’s what we’re talking about today. Our guest is David Shapiro, philosopher, educator, and writer whose work consistently explores matters of meaning, purpose, and equity.
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| 0:31.0 | is all about how to age with purpose. |
| 0:34.0 | Most of us in later life will, |
| 0:36.6 | and a different kind of freedom than we had in earlier life. |
| 0:41.6 | And that's above all a freedom to really be the person that we always |
| 0:45.6 | meant to be. No more excuses. Thinking about aging in that way as an opportunity to grow |
| 0:51.4 | into the person you really are, to grow whole, is a change in mindset |
| 0:56.6 | that says aging is not a disease, it's not something bad. |
| 1:00.3 | It is, you know, there will be challenges for all of us, but there's challenges for all of us all through our lives. |
| 1:06.0 | And one of the rewards of getting older is that presumably you've had more experiences that allow you to face the challenges more |
| 1:16.2 | authentically in ways that allow you to continue to grow. Getting old is weird. |
| 1:25.0 | Collectively we treat it like a disease. |
| 1:29.8 | And I get why. |
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