Here's a question for you.

What do you think about when you hear the word elder?

Well, if you're in your 20s and 30s, pretty safe bet, you get a vision of somebody who's

kind of old, crepid, in the waning years of their life and not in a place where they're

sort of at their prime and offering incredible things to the world.

If you are in the middle years of your life, the word elder may kind of have an association

with elderly and it may be a source of fear.

Something that you're trying to and fighting like crazy to avoid.

Well, my guest today, Chip Connelly, has written a book called Wisdom at Work, The Making

of a Modern Elder, which is really a reclamation of the word elder and the notion of what it

means to be, to serve the role of an elder in society, in business, in work, and the

incredible value.

And here's the kind of fascinating thing about that.

What is the age range that we think about when we think about this?

So one of the things that I explore with Chip is the notion that we may be entering this

phase of our lives way, way earlier than we thought.

And the wisdom that function, their 40s, 50s, can bring to business, to work, to the world

in any world that is increasingly fast paced, distracted, hyper focused on the small granular

things.

The wisdom and experience of decades on the planet, pattern recognition, astonishing

experience.

The ability to get the bigger picture, the holistic gist of things, is increasingly valued

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