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The 100-Year Life

By: Lynda Gratton, Andrew Scott
Narrated by: Mark Meadows
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Summary

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.

©2016 Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott (P)2016 Audible Ltd.

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  • 11-07-21

OK, but basic and lacking imagination

I found this book to be quite basic, which was disappointing as I expected the subject to be explored in more depth and with more imagination.
For someone that has never thought about this area and hasn’t thought much about different ways of planning your life and career pathway, it could be a useful introduction.

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Important book on demographic change/aging society

A must-read for people involved in policymaking, as well as people interested in the scale and impacts of an aging population and the so-called inverted demographic pyramid. Lots to think about in terms of pensions and funding post-retirement, as well as demolishing the persistent myth about the three-stage life, ie you're a child, then you have a career,, then you retire. This book explains that this type of life won't exist for many of us in the 21st century and that the nature of work has changed and will continue to change significantly,

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.

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First book I would call essential

The multiple issues raised by the likely 100 year lifespan facing current 20-somethings are complex and go beyond finances. A wide ranging and informative book of equal interest to those in the 50s.

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Explains well work life balance

Made me approach work from different perspective. The phrase "work life balance" has a different meaning to me after finishing this book.

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Everyone should listen to this

It points out looming issues, cultural norms we take for granted, and offers alternatives to the status quo. If nothing else, it was interesting.

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I made myself listen to one hour but then gave up

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I had high hopes from the title but I learnt nothing on any level

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To be negative is to fail so I will not!

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  • 02-08-19

Powerful, profound and life changing!

I’m really glad I can across this book at the beginning of my 30s! The book has distilled so many challenges (and opportunities) that my generation face and ways in which we can prepare ourselves (personally and professionally) for a longer life! I would highly recommend this book to anyone and everyone - but perhaps more importantly, our politicians and policy makers!

Thank you Lynda and Andrew for sharing these insights!

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very interesting concepts explained, good listen!

absolutely loved it, very good deep dive into the 100 year life and what you can do to make the most of it

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Essential mid life reading

So glad I read this book as it affirmed a lot of what I had been thinking and planning towards in the last few years. The need for re-creation struck a chord ..it’s never too late to evolve...Good insights and well structured.

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valuable info but too quick and dry to absorb.

valuable info but too quick and dry to absorb. needs to be delivered with more examples and or at a slower pace so that one can imagine how the information or idea applies to one's own life.

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