How To Start Over at 60
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Age may just be a number but turning 60 is a big deal—at least, according to three listeners who recently wrote us about the challenges they're facing in their later years. Joy can't decide whether to retire from her job as a high school Spanish teacher. Doug is trying to figure out where to channel his energy after a career in the military. And Kim needs to find a way to support herself for the first time in her life after a devastating divorce. On this episode of How To!, we bring on Herminia Ibarra, a professor at the London Business School and author of Working Identity. Herminia has studied life transitions extensively, discovering that we make changes by running small experiments rather than taking one flying leap into the unknown. And since our identities are so closely linked to our professional life, Herminia says, it's important to surround yourself with new people as you conduct these experiments, testing out different possible selves and imagining what new identities may be out there for you, at any age.
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| 0:30.2 | I've never been a numbers person. I've always just put my age out there. But to say 60, and especially when, with all the inevitable changes |
| 0:41.2 | that were getting ready to happen, I couldn't spit it out. You're listening to How to. I'm |
| 0:49.4 | David Epstein. More than ever before, Americans are working into their so-called golden years. |
| 0:56.1 | By the time retirement comes around, many folks are facing the kind of identity crises they thought they'd left behind years ago. |
| 1:03.0 | In the past few months, we've gotten a lot of email from listeners about the unexpected identity challenges of those later years. |
| 1:09.7 | So many that on this week's show, we decided to bring on not just one listener, but three. |
| 1:15.5 | Hi, my name is Joy, and I'm a high school Spanish teacher. |
| 1:19.8 | Hi, my name's Doug. |
| 1:21.0 | I've retired from the military. |
| 1:22.8 | I'm a personal trainer, and I write books. |
| 1:24.8 | Hi, my name is Kim. |
| 1:26.1 | I am starting my life over after 60. |
| 1:31.4 | Can you share sort of how did you feel the day you turned 60? |
| 1:35.2 | I've had my son's birthday. |
| 1:37.7 | He turned two, or if you ask him, how old did you turn today? |
| 1:40.4 | He said, too old. |
| 1:42.8 | I felt like your son, David, too old, which is so funny because |
| 1:48.1 | my daughter recently redid my website for me, but she put my age on there. And when I read it, |
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