Chip Conley on Finding Contentment and Embracing Our Achievements
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🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with successful hospitality entrepreneur and bestselling author Chip Conley on boutique hotels and stimulating the 5 senses, the importance of reflection, understanding what the ego is telling you but not identifying with it, the most powerful idea from the Stoics, along with his New York Times bestselling book Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age.
Chip Conley is on a mission to reframe our relationship with aging. As the founder of MEA, the world's first midlife wisdom school with regenerative communities, Conley is disrupting both the idea of higher education and senior living. He has both a BA and MBA from Stanford University and an Honorary PhD in Psychology from Saybrook University. He’s been a TED speaker at the prestigious annual conference multiple times.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient stillics, a short passage of ancient wisdom |
| 0:16.7 | designed to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life. |
| 0:21.6 | And on Wednesdays, we talk to some of our fellow students of |
| 0:25.4 | ancient philosophy well-known and obscure fascinating and powerful with them we |
| 0:31.2 | discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are, |
| 0:35.8 | and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives. |
| 0:40.1 | But first, we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors. Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. I have a weird habit. Maybe you pick this up about me, maybe you haven't. Maybe you noticed it from the podcast, but I have a lot of really old friends. Like a lot of really old friends. George Traveling is in his late 80s as someone I talked to on a very regular basis. |
| 1:16.3 | You might have noticed a guy named Judge Frederick Block who blurbed the obstacle is the way who I've known now for 10 years. He was in his 80s when I met him. He is much older now. |
| 1:26.5 | And that's just a collection of some of the people that have mentored and influenced and inspired me over the years. |
| 1:34.8 | I didn't know, like I didn't have a term for what they were in my life until I met today's |
| 1:40.7 | guest. Chip Connolly calls them elders, specifically he calls them modern |
| 1:45.2 | elders, right? Like people who and that and that's the role that Chip Connley |
| 1:49.6 | played at Airbnb. He was a successful hotel entrepreneur and he met the founders of |
| 1:55.2 | Airbnb and they brought him in. He didn't have like a set job description, but he was |
| 1:59.5 | just there to kind of be a good influence to help them with problems that he'd faced in his life, |
| 2:05.0 | have good energy to be an advisor, a thinker, to help them see big picture, to help them. |
| 2:11.0 | He'd been through the kind of things that they were going through. It was a great |
| 2:14.9 | partnership and I met Chip Connley at an event where another sort of elder in my life |
| 2:21.0 | was there, also been on the podcast, Kevin Kelly. |
| 2:25.8 | We were at Powder Mountain in Utah, |
| 2:27.8 | it was a summit event that I was speaking at, |
| 2:30.4 | and we sort of became friends. |
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