The 100-Year Life

Living and Working in an Age of Longevity

By: Lynda Gratton, Andrew Scott

Narrated by: Mark Meadows

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.

Moving from Three to Multi-Stage Life

Cool to recognize many of the interesting trends and insights from their research. Need to process thier predictions on how personal paradigms and societal changes need to change.

Great book!

listened from the beginning to the end, really good book that looks into future and tells what to expect and what to be ready for. highly recommend!

Starts of well

I thought the first half of the book was amazing. It really gets you thinking. However towards the end it becomes far to predictive.

This book is a great book to understand how you should plan your life for the future. But I felt depressed listening after a while because it was planning you entire existence.

I had high expectations and unfortunately I was slightly let down but I don't retreat listening and would recommend for other readers.

Love the concepts in this book

Im in my mid 50s and have been feeling stuck. The ideas in the 100 year life have given me a lot of hope for the future. I have listened to this book 3 times. I bought the hard copy to follow along and make notes on my third listening with my wife as an end of year exercise to seed ideas for 2023 and the future.
Thank you.

Good ideas dryly presented

Book explores impact on life as we live longer. Practical and logical presentation makes for thought provoking ideas albeit dryly presented.