Replay: Paul Irving shares Five Things He's Learned about The Upside of Aging
Check out the first five minutes of his recent class.
"As the author/editor of The Upside of Aging, I had the privilege and joy of learning myself from prominent thought leaders who understand the significant upsides arriving for health, work and entrepreneurship, volunteerism, innovation and education – opportunities that stem from a mature population ready to pursue different dreams than those of their parents and grandparents."
– Paul Irving, Five Things I've Learned about The Upside of Aging
Paul Irving is a senior fellow at the Milken Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank that helps people build meaningful lives. He is also the celebrated author of The Upside of Aging: How Long Life Is Changing the World of Health, Work, Innovation, Policy, and Purpose. Here’s the first five minutes of our recent 90-minute class in which he shares the Five Things He’s Learned about how each of us can make the most of the unprecedented potential and possibility that awaits our coming years.
Five Things I’ve Learned about the Upside of Aging shares the most important things that Paul and his colleagues have discovered during his career, with an emphasis on what he believes to be the most significant personal and social opportunities on the horizon. We need to look at aging in a new way," he writes. "There’s an upside of aging – and it's available to us all."
Paul’s conversation with Kris Rebillot is part of our ongoing series, Five Things I’ve Learned about Living Better Longer. These 90-minute sessions share the insights, perspectives, and experiences of renowned researchers and scientists devoted to exploring the ways in which we age and to applying their knowledge to improve our lives.
If you’re eager to discover the insights we need to make the most of the possibilities that await us as we age, this conversation is for you.
Paul has a unique vantage point from which to share what he describes as the upside of aging, the title of his recent book on this topic which describes a thrilling re-imagination of our older years that has critical implications for people of all ages. Previously, Paul worked as a senior fellow at the Milken Institute, as the Institute’s president and founding chair of its Center for the Future of Aging, as an advanced leadership fellow at Harvard University, and chair and CEO of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, a national law and consulting firm. Paul now serves as a distinguished scholar-in-residence at the University of Southern California Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.
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