Regan and Chip Conley, CEO and Founder of the Modern Elder Academy, dive into why a growth mindset is a strategic competency, and how curiosity creates wisdom and is the taproot for creativity and innovation. They explore the misconceptions about disruption, and why becoming a “first-class noticer” who looks at failures and surprises is essential for future-readiness.
Key Takeaways
How curiosity is hard to curate, which led AirBnB to create quarterly Curious Days.
Why a growth mindset focuses on improving vs. proving yourself.
The importance of seeing failure as a noble experiment.
How painful life lessons are the raw material for future wisdom.
Why customer agitation is the catalyst for disruption and imagination.
Resources
Connect with Chip on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chipconleysf/
Learn about Chip’s company, Modern Elder Academy: https://www.meawisdom.com/
About Our Guest
Chip Conley is on a midlife mission. After disrupting the hospitality industry twice, first as the founder of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, the second-largest operator of boutique hotels in the U.S., and then as Airbnb’s Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy, leading a worldwide revolution in travel, Conley co-founded MEA (Modern Elder Academy) in January 2018 in Baja California, Mexico.
Inspired by his experience of intergenerational mentoring as a ‘modern elder’ at Airbnb, where his guidance was instrumental to the company’s extraordinary transformation from fast-growing start-up to the world’s most valuable hospitality brand, MEA is the world's first ‘midlife wisdom school’ and recently opened a campus on a 2,600-acre regenerative horse ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico in May 2024. Dedicated to reframing the concept of aging, MEA supports students to navigate midlife with a renewed sense of purpose and possibility.
A New York Times bestselling author, Conley's seventh book "Learning to Love Midlife: 12 Reasons Why Life Gets Better with Age" is about rebranding midlife to help people understand the upside of this often-misunderstood life stage and gave a 2023 TED talk on the "midlife chrysalis." In the week of Chip's launch of "Learning to Love Midlife" in January 2024, he was featured as a guest on both "Good Morning, America" and "The Today Show" and the book rose to the #1 Happiness/Self-Help book on Amazon.
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