The "Life Weaver" - Lynda Gratton

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What if the career ladder is the wrong model for a life that may last 100 years? Professor Lynda Gratton joins Joe McCarthy on High Net Purpose to discuss the problem hiding inside one of humanity’s greatest gifts: many of us will live and work far longer than the lives and careers we inherited were designed for. The old model was simple. Education, work, retirement. A ladder to climb. Lynda’s alternative is more demanding and more hopeful: stop climbing and start weaving. That means building a life across mastery, judgement, cooperation, relationships, calm and adventure. Some threads keep us productive. Others stop a productive life becoming a rather efficient form of burnout. Lynda and…