Life’s Hidden Season: When Everything Finally Makes Sense | Mark Nepo
Good Life Project
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4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Through ancient Chinese wisdom and personal experience, poet and spiritual teacher Mark Nepo reveals how life's second half can be our most profound creative awakening.
In this intimate conversation about his new book The Fifth Season: Creativity in the Second Half of Life, Nepo shares how aging isn't about decline but rather an invitation to strip away the non-essential and access deeper wisdom, offering a refreshing perspective for anyone seeking to live more authentically at any age.
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| 0:00.0 | So what if, no matter your age, the most creative, alive, and impactful season of your life |
| 0:06.3 | hasn't happened yet? What if getting older wasn't just about what you can no longer do, |
| 0:12.1 | but rather was an invitation to a profound creative awakening? These questions sparked one of the |
| 0:18.2 | most illuminating conversations I've had about creativity, aging, |
| 0:21.8 | and what it means to live authentically in life's later chapters. |
| 0:25.7 | My guest today is Mark Nepo, beloved poet, spiritual teacher, and number one New York Times |
| 0:30.8 | bestselling author of The Book of Awakening, with over a million copies sold and works |
| 0:35.6 | translated into more than 20 languages, Mark has been |
| 0:38.8 | called one of the finest spiritual guides of our time. And his newest book, The Fifth Season, |
| 0:44.5 | Creativity in the Second Half of Life, it offers this fresh perspective on aging as a time of |
| 0:50.1 | integration, transformation, and creative revelation. What emerged in our conversation, |
| 0:55.4 | it just kind of completely shifted my understanding of creativity and aging. Mark shares how |
| 1:01.6 | the creative process and introspective process are actually one and the same. He also |
| 1:07.5 | unpacks the profound difference between legacy and living authentically, |
| 1:12.1 | offering a perspective that could really transform how you think about your life's impact. |
| 1:17.2 | So excited to share this conversation with you. |
| 1:20.2 | I'm Jonathan Fields, and this is Good Life Project. |
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