Chip Conley's daily blog:
Thoughts on the art of living
Hi. I am Stephanie. I’m a middle-aged, straight woman, and I’m obsessed with reading gay male romantic fiction. My obsession started in 2022 when I discovered BookTok, a community of mostly millennial women on TikTok who were sharing the books they loved with an emotional vulnerability that has captivated me to this day. The books ...
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However, a recent study points to a third way to live a good life: a psychologically rich life. An article in Psychological Review by Shigehiro Oishi and Erin Westgate suggests
March 12, 2022
She also has a TED talk on the subject, along with this TED Ideas essay on a topic close to my heart: aging. Here are a couple of excerpts from
March 11, 2022
No matter where we think we’re going, the journey of every life is to find its home in the moment where everything touches everything else. We are mistakenly taught that
March 10, 2022
It’s my fourth time at Modern Elder Academy in two years (and during a pandemic nonetheless). On this trip, I was torn about which workshop to register for. I wavered
March 9, 2022
This New York Times review calls it “a cartoonish view of middle-age” and skewers it as trying to be so woke it’s unwoke. Maybe the show is truly “white whine”
March 8, 2022
Andragogy examines the process by which adults learn, as distinct from pedagogy which is how children learn. Of course, it makes sense that how and why we learn is different
March 7, 2022
In short, our work is half done. However, it was encouraging for me to see this recent TIME magazine article entitled “Companies Embrace Older Workers As Younger Employees Quit or
March 6, 2022
You probably didn’t know that the origin of the Pet Rock was in Baja. Advertising exec Gary Dahl collected smooth stones at Rosarito Beach then marketed them as live pets.
March 5, 2022
Sadness because of the statistical reality, on average, that I only have ten to fifteen more good years left, years in which I will be fully healthy, energetic and productive.
March 4, 2022
Chip: I’ve been contemplating Jeste’s work for over a year now and have found that while his observations seem true, his work hasn’t really offered a path towards wisdom. As
March 3, 2022
After completing his Ph.D. in cell genetics in 1972, he moved to the Himalayas to live near the Tibetan spiritual masters. His MEA workshop is called “Heartfully Preparing for Elderhood.”
March 2, 2022
Cohesion without locomotion can be fun in the short term, but the stagnation and lack of progress can be frustrating. Locomotion without cohesion is stressful and can feel haphazard. The
March 1, 2022
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