Panel
Pivoting to Purpose: Defining the Next Chapter of Your Life
- Mark Friedman projects South Korean women will exceed a life expectancy of 90 within a decade and that half of children born in the developed world since 2000 will reach age 100.
- Friedman predicts that by mid-century, 40 to 50 percent of populations in Korea, Japan, Germany, Spain, and Italy will be over 60, while noting that living longer than expected remains a persistent issue.
- Friedman anticipates four and a half million people currently in "encore careers" that last approximately 10 years, with a potential 21 million more prioritizing this work, representing 250 million years of human and social capital.
- Friedman observes that older adults mentoring youth are three times as likely to be happy and suggests that replacing age with video game levels could foster greater respect from younger generations.
- Sherry Lansing plans to leave her current role before turning 60, viewing this age as a threshold for a new life, and expects to live to become a centenarian.
- Lansing warns that a lack of purpose could lead to illness and depression, while asserting that women must speak up to negotiate fair wages and that the current generation will redefine aging.
- Lansing believes the narrative limiting older adults is shifting, citing Mick Jagger's performance at 73, and notes that united groups possess significant power to address issues like unequal pay.
- Philip Pizzo expects 20 percent of the U.S. population to be over 65 within 14 years and notes that older populations will soon surpass younger ones in nations like Japan and China.
- Pizzo anticipates that social narratives regarding age, currently defined by late 19th-century metrics like pensions, will undergo significant transformation as the demographic balance shifts.
- Pizzo plans to facilitate career transitions through the Stanford Distinguished Careers Institute and expects the next generation to be highly inspired to address climate change.
- Pizzo observes a recent rise in young people rejecting traditional paths to pursue different endeavors, driven by a desire to deal with inherited environmental contamination.
- Linda Resnick expects the rebuilt town of Lost Hills to fail without education and plans to engage 15- and 16-year-olds in the Central Valley as "soldiers of change" for diabetes prevention.
- Resnick intends to have youth in the Central Valley deliver health messages to their families to impact community health outcomes.
- Mark Friedman expects that the era of replacing age numbers with video game levels could make younger people view older individuals with more respect.
- Friedman expects that the largest opportunities lie in the future rather than in cramming activities into brief windows, and notes that intergenerational living is at its highest level since the 1940s.
- Sherry Lansing plans to redefine aging as an opportunity to solve problems such as the shortage of math and science teachers and believes giving back is the greatest way to fulfill oneself.
- Lansing asserts that the sentiment that "I can't" regarding age is changing and that employers increasingly seek the most talented individuals regardless of gender or age.
- Philip Pizzo believes a better understanding of enabling factors will allow significant choices on how lives evolve, while advocating for truth, honesty, and integrity among future generations.
- Sherry Lansing expects that the generation present will redefine aging, viewing success as built upon failure and the resilience to recover.
- Mark Friedman argues that given the millions presenting for encore careers, there is a strong case that no community member should be wasted.
- Sherry Lansing anticipates that people will live as long in their retirement as they did in their working years, provided they maintain purpose.
- Linda Resnick notes that 15- and 16-year-olds in the Central Valley are willing to be "soldiers of change" regarding health issues, specifically focusing on diabetes prevention through family health messaging.