Chip Conley Wants You To Love Getting Older

What if the best is yet to come?

This week I talked with New York Times bestselling author Chip Conley about his new book Learning To Love Midlife: 12 Reasons That Life Gets Better With Age.

Chip is also co-founder of the Modern Elder Academy, which I’ve had the pleasure of attending and highly recommend. To learn more about Chip’s illustrious career, go here.

Chip believes—and I concur—that life doesn't really begin until you turn 50. Everything else is a dress rehearsal, he says.

But you wouldn't know this listening to the horrible messages about aging we hear in our culture. So many people dread the idea of getting older, seeing it as one long, slow decline. I used to be one of those people. I have been absolutely shocked by how much happier I am in my 50s and how much I look forward to what is to come.

But getting to that place took a lot of unlearning toxic social conditioning that is driven mainly by industries that want to make money off of scaring us about "getting old."