The 100-Year Life
Living and Working in an Age of Longevity
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The 100-Year Life
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Mark Meadows
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What will your 100-year life look like? Does the thought of working for 60 or 70 years fill you with dread? Or can you see the potential for a more stimulating future as a result of having so much extra time?
Many of us have been raised on the traditional notion of a three-stage approach to our working lives: education, followed by work and then retirement. But this well-established pathway is already beginning to collapse. Life expectancy is rising, final-salary pensions are vanishing and increasing numbers of people are juggling multiple careers.
Whether you are 18, 45 or 60, you will need to do things very differently from previous generations and learn to structure your life in completely new ways. The 100-Year Life is here to help. Drawing on the unique pairing of their experience in psychology and economics, Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott offer a broad-ranging analysis as well as a raft of solutions, showing how to rethink your finances, your education, your career and your relationships and create a fulfilling 100-year life.
The 100-Year Life is a wake-up call that describes what to expect and considers the choices and options that you will face. It is also fundamentally a call to action for individuals, politicians, firms and governments and offers the clearest demonstration that a 100-year life can be a wonderful and inspiring one.
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Thank you Lynda and Andrew for sharing these insights!
Powerful, profound and life changing!
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I am 34, and may not live until I'm 100, but even if I love till I'm 80 the lessons in this book still apply. Read this book now to help set out how you want to live your life to the full.
Lifechanging
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The book offers insights and possibilities into what our increased lifespan may contain, so you can plan accordingly.
Deep insights into the future of work
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One impact of this is the need for reinvention in the world of work, acquiring intangible assets such as skills or education/qualifications in order to continue working and adapt to the jobs market in the future, and ensuring we have enough money for retirement, particularly as future generations can be sure that their state pension will approximate to almost nothing at all.
Challenging this "everyone has a three-stage life" myth is one of the most important things this book offers and is probably the most profound insight I gleaned from listening to it, I think the trend about job markets becoming less stable over time and underlining the need for reinvention is an important one too when you think about this in context with other destabilizing factors, such as technology, AI, robotics, IoT, and the impact this wil have on the job market, and in many cases are already having.
Look for example at the legal battle between Uber and their drivers about whether they should be legally treated as employees or as self-employed, this was very recently ruled so that Uber has to give them minimum wage, holidays, etc. We can see these sorts of challenges to societally accepted views of employment and expectations from employees and employers to continue as tech companies cointue to innovate and disrupt, and challenge convention.
In short, this is a good introduction to the impacts that the demographic shift/aging populations will have on society.
Important book on demographic change/aging society
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Explains well work life balance
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