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The Trouble With Knowing Who You Are - What Have You Failed At Lately?

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Game plan

In this episode, Lucy Patterson explores how life's challenges and aging influence our personal growth, experimentation, and the importance of adapting our self-perception over time.

She emphasises the value of curiosity, testing assumptions, and leaving space for future versions of ourselves.


Key topics & Takeaways:

  • The importance of experimentation and testing assumptions
  • How life's challenges can contract our worlds and identities
  • The difference between making your world smaller and living smaller
  • The role of curiosity and learning in personal longevity
  • The concept of updating your personal operating system and data
  • The impact of societal age labels versus personal age perception
  • Experimentation is a low-risk way to evolve and discover new interests.
  • Regularly testing and updating our assumptions about ourselves keeps us adaptable.
  • Living longer offers more time for change, not just more years of the same.


Sound Bites:

"Life should work like style - it should grow and adapt with us."


"Leave enough space for the person you're becoming to show up."


“I'd confused making more room for other people with requiring less room for myself.”


“We essentially become products created using customer research conducted twenty years ago. I'd never recommend that as an innovation strategy. So why do we do it to ourselves?”“Reinvention suggests demolition. Experimentation allows evolution.”

Chapters:

00:00 The question about failure and experimentation

01:56 How life's challenges can shrink our worlds

03:52 The concept of personal style and life as an evolving process

07:06 Reassessing age and identity in a longer life

08:52 The power of experimentation and testing assumptions

12:13 Living smaller versus living intentionally

14:07 The importance of leaving space for future self

15:31 Embrace change and experimentationResources:

Website

Longevity Women

Substack

LinkedIn


Keywords: longevity, self-improvement, experimentation, aging, identity, curiosity, personal growth, adaptation, life design, long-term thinking, design thinking, midlife