How to Navigate Mid-life Transitions as a Modern Elder – Chip Conley, MBA : 1045
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Learn how to expand your wisdom, cultivate a generous culture, invest in mentorship, and thrive in relationships as a leader.
Chip Conley, MBA, talks with Dave in Austin about the concept of wisdom, transcending age boundaries, and the importance of writing down life lessons. He firmly believes that curiosity is the elixir of life.
He also explores the paradigm shift in company culture, where focusing on “cultural add” rather than “cultural fit” can foster innovation and diversity. Drawing on his experience that propelled Airbnb’s success, Chip uncovers how Airbnb maintains its strong cultural focus through cultural values interviews and company-wide gatherings.
A big part of mid-life includes navigating and understanding different generations, especially in the workplace. Chip earned the name “Modern Elder” in a surreptitious way through his work with much younger employees. Airbnb looked to Chip’s sustained success in the hospitality space and asked him to help transform their start-up into the world’s leading hospitality brand more than a decade ago. He came on to lead Global Hospitality and Strategy.
Then 52, he was twice the age of the average Airbnb employee. This earned him the title “Airbnb's Modern Elder” who was as curious as he was wise. He’s currently the company’s Strategic Advisor for Hospitality and Leadership.
That experience influenced Chip to create the Modern Elder Academy—a new roadmap for midlife and learning opportunities—at an oceanfront campus in Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Chip’s also a New York Times bestselling author, an in-demand public speaker (especially TEDtalks!) and is on the advisory council for the Stanford Center on Longevity.
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SPECIAL PRESENTATION: Live Fireside Chat: Dr. Mark Hyman & Chip Conley: The universe aligned to bring Dr. Mark Hyman and Chip Conley to Austin to talk with Dave on The Human Upgrade recently. If you missed Mark’s chat with Dave about how to be “Young Forever," listen here. Then, Dr. Mark and Chip connected for a Live Fireside Chat—listen here!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:06.0 | Formerly, Bulletproof Radio. |
| 0:11.8 | You're listening to the human upgrade with Dave Asprey. |
| 0:16.4 | I've got a well-known guy here in the studio in Austin with me. |
| 0:20.1 | His name is Chip Conley. |
| 0:22.9 | Chip runs something called Modern Elder Academy, |
| 0:26.4 | and he's helping people cultivate wisdom, |
| 0:31.0 | and he's working on understanding different generations, |
| 0:34.7 | especially in the workplace. |
| 0:36.3 | Now, if you're young, this episode is for you. |
| 0:39.2 | You're in your early 20s, maybe you're 30. |
| 0:42.7 | And you say, I'm not that young. |
| 0:44.1 | Well, you're kind of in the middle there, |
| 0:45.8 | but you're certainly not 90, right? |
| 0:48.0 | And Chip's working on how do we get three generations |
| 0:51.2 | together to share knowledge? |
| 0:53.1 | And it's really impactful and profound |
| 0:56.0 | when you do that. |
| 0:56.8 | I even put my Burning Man camps together that way. |
| 0:59.1 | I want a couple of elders. |
| 1:00.5 | I want a couple of young people to pick up heavy things |
| 1:03.0 | and run around and get us all excited. |
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