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The New Q3: 3 Lessons on Identity, Agency & Experience

What have I learned from a summer of conversations about longer lives?

Looking back over this season of the 4-Quarter Lives podcast, I realised that my guests – despite coming from very different worlds – kept circling around three big themes: identity, agency and experience.

Together, they offer a surprisingly coherent map of the New Q3: the 25 or so years between roughly 50 and 75 that are emerging as a distinct new quarter of life.

In this solo episode, I draw together some of the ideas that stayed with me from the season.

Charlie Rogers introduced me to the idea of becoming “undefinable”…

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