Key topics covered about being older and wiser and the reality of wisdom:
- Why you may not automatically get older and wiser when it comes to wisdom
- Why getting older doesn’t necessarily make us wiser and what research on aging and wisdom suggests instead
- The difference between accumulating life experience and building lived wisdom
- Why I think wisdom is about becoming increasingly skilled at learning from your own life
- Why one of the great advantages of midlife is having decades of data about yourself to learn from
- How noticing more about what you want can eventually lead to wisdom
- Why something can get your attention long before you understand what it means
- How self-trust can sound like, “I don’t know what this means yet, but I trust myself enough not to dismiss it”
- Why patience and curiosity matter in the gap between noticing and knowing
- How “WHAT FIRST, THEN HOW” can keep you from forcing an answer simply because uncertainty feels uncomfortable
- Why recurring interests, desires, delights, and curiosities can be valuable information about who you are and what matters to you
- How the wisdom you’ve already built can become a stronger foundation for intentionally leading your next chapter
- Why living like time matters also means paying attention to what you’re giving your precious time and attention to
Welcome to another episode of the Women in the Middle® Podcast!
Are you really older and wiser? Research suggests that wisdom doesn’t automatically increase just because we get older. Age gives us experience, but experience and wisdom aren’t the same thing.
Wisdom grows when we pay attention to our experiences, reflect on what they’re showing us, and allow what we learn to influence how we understand, trust, and lead ourselves. And this matters so much in midlife because by now, you have an incredible amount of data about yourself. You’ve had decades to discover what energizes you, what drains you, what you love, what you tolerate, what you regret, what you keep coming back to, and what keeps getting your attention.
The years give you the data. Noticing helps you see the patterns. Awareness and reflection help you understand them. Self-trust helps you take what you learn seriously. And self-leadership helps you decide what you want to do with that wisdom now.
In this episode, I’m also exploring something I’ve been noticing in my own life: sometimes we notice something long before we understand what it means. An idea, desire, curiosity, or pull catches our attention, but we don’t yet know why. Self-trust can mean having the patience to stay in that gap and trust that something is worth our attention without demanding an immediate answer or rushing into action.
Ultimately, wisdom isn’t just about understanding the life you’ve already lived. It helps you decide how you want to live the time that’s still ahead. And that’s what I mean when I talk about learning to live like time matters…because it does.
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