The 100-Year Career: Reimagine Your Professional Journey | Apeksha Gupta | TEDxDFBEDU
Summary
TLDRThe speaker reflects on the traditional notion of success and retirement, questioning its relevance in an era where people may live to 100. They propose a future of work that includes multiple career phases and a shift in priorities from money to personal growth and community. The concept of a 'portfolio career' is introduced, allowing individuals to pursue various vocations simultaneously. The speaker encourages envisioning three life scenarios to gain perspective and explore what truly motivates them, advocating for a non-linear, fulfilling life path.
Takeaways
- 😀 The speaker started their career at 22 with a single-minded goal of achieving success, fearing that success was a finite resource that had to be attained by a certain age.
- 🏆 They became a CEO before turning 30, aligning with the societal notion of 'retiring by fortune' at a young age.
- 🌟 The reality of potentially living up to 100 years old has challenged the traditional concept of retirement and the linear career path.
- 🔄 The idea of a 'multi-phase career' is introduced, suggesting that people may have multiple careers throughout their extended lives.
- 💡 Money will remain important but won't be the primary motivator in a world where life spans are significantly longer.
- 🌱 The emphasis will shift towards community, mental and emotional well-being, and personal growth as life's motivators.
- 🎨 The speaker encourages envisioning life as a 'multiverse' with three different scenarios to consider: perfect life, life flipped by AI and automation, and a life where money and reputation are not the measure of success.
- 🛠 The concept of a 'portfolio career' is presented as a way to pursue multiple vocations, interests, and roles simultaneously.
- 🔮 The importance of prototyping and trying out different life paths, even at an older age, is highlighted to explore new passions and skills.
- 🔄 The speaker advocates for a non-linear approach to life and career, allowing for continuous learning, reflection, and change.
- 🌐 The script concludes by celebrating the unique opportunity of living in a time of unprecedented longevity and the potential for a fulfilling and varied life.
Q & A
What was the speaker's initial mindset about success and retirement before their career started?
-The speaker initially believed in the notion of celebrating success as a finite resource, feeling the pressure to achieve it before a specific time period, and was ready to retire by 30.
At what age did the speaker become a CEO and how did it align with their earlier beliefs about success?
-The speaker became a CEO before their 30th birthday, which seemed to align with their earlier belief of achieving success by a certain age.
What realization about life expectancy prompted the speaker to reconsider their views on retirement?
-The realization that people in the current generation may live up to 100 years old made the speaker reconsider the concept of retirement and the future of work.
What does the speaker suggest the future of work might look like given the potential for longer life spans?
-The speaker suggests that the future of work might involve multiple career phases, with money not being the primary motivator and a focus on community, mental and emotional well-being.
What is the concept of a 'portfolio career' as introduced by the speaker?
-A 'portfolio career' is the idea of having multiple vocations, careers, roles, and responsibilities that one can pursue simultaneously, leveraging all of one's interests, talents, and education.
How does the speaker propose to think about life in the context of the future of work?
-The speaker proposes thinking about life as a 'Multiverse' with three scenarios: the perfect life, life if everything goes awry, and a life without the constraints of money and reputation.
What are the three scenarios the speaker suggests envisioning for one's life?
-The three scenarios are: 1) Life going perfectly as desired, 2) Life being disrupted by AI, robotics, and automation, and 3) A life without the concern for money and reputation.
What does the speaker mean by 'stealing the script' from the future?
-The speaker means adopting and integrating new skills, interests, or careers into one's life from emerging fields or trends, essentially 'stealing' the script of someone else's reality to diversify one's own life experiences.
How does the speaker view the role of money in one's life as they age and have a longer life span?
-The speaker views money as an important motivator but not the primary one as life spans increase. They suggest that other factors such as community, mental and emotional well-being, and personal growth will become more significant.
What is the speaker's perspective on the concept of aging and how it should be approached in the future?
-The speaker believes that aging should be approached as a fulfilling process, where the excess of life is not a burden but an opportunity for continuous learning, growth, and meaningful living.
How does the speaker encourage individuals to think about their career and life choices?
-The speaker encourages individuals to think about their life as a designer, using design thinking principles to prototype and test different life scenarios, and to reflect and change their plans as they grow older.
Outlines
🔮 The Future of Work and Lifelong Career Shifts
The speaker reflects on their career ambitions and the traditional notion of success, which led to becoming a CEO by the age of 30. They express a shift in perspective upon realizing the potential for a 100-year lifespan, questioning the concept of retirement and the linear progression of career and life stages. The speaker introduces the idea of a multi-phase career and the importance of redefining life's purpose beyond financial success, focusing on personal growth, community, and mental well-being. They propose considering three hypothetical scenarios for one's life: the ideal life, a life disrupted by technological advancements, and a life free from the constraints of societal success metrics. The speaker encourages embracing a 'portfolio career' that allows for multiple vocations and interests to be pursued simultaneously, providing a sneak peek into the future and the potential for a fulfilling, non-linear life journey.
🎨 Embracing the Portfolio Career and Lifelong Learning
The speaker delves deeper into the concept of a 'portfolio career,' illustrating how it enables individuals to pursue various interests and roles concurrently, rather than sequentially. They use their own life as an example, highlighting their involvement in business, creative arts, mentorship, and social endeavors. The speaker emphasizes the benefits of this approach, such as not being confined to a single career path and the ability to adapt and incorporate new skills and passions into one's life at any stage. They advocate for a design thinking approach to life, encouraging experimentation and prototyping different life scenarios. The speaker also discusses the evolution of career motivations, from societal success in the first career, to meaning-making and community contribution in the second, and finally to continuous reflection and change in the later stages of life. The message concludes with an optimistic view of aging and the beauty of exploring uncharted territories in life, thanks to increased longevity.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Retirement
💡Success
💡Metamorphosis
💡Portfolio Career
💡Linear Career
💡Multiple Phases
💡Life Motivation
💡Self-Limiting Beliefs
💡Design Thinking
💡Meaning Making
💡Fulfilling Aging
Highlights
Starting a career at age 22.
Goal to retire early.
Achieving CEO position before 30th birthday.
Realizing the potential to live up to 100 years.
Redefining the notion of retirement.
Considering the future of work in an extended lifespan.
Multiple phases of careers and life.
Shifting primary motivators from money to community and well-being.
Introducing the concept of a 'Multiverse' for life scenarios.
Scenario planning for perfect life, disruption by AI, and ideal dream life.
Eliminating self-limiting beliefs.
Using design thinking principles for life planning.
Concept of a portfolio career with multiple vocations.
Prototyping life experiences.
Reflecting and continuously adapting life plans.
Transcripts
[Music]
so I started my career at the age of 22
and before I didn't set foot into an
office space I was ready to retire by
foot that was there was a single-minded
goal in my head and it was this entire
barrage of the notion of celebrating
success as a Le right success seems like
a finite resource that if I didn't
achieve it before a specific time period
my time was sort of peon um and I did
make it to CEO before my 30th birthday
and I seemed like I sort of come on
track with that notion of retiring by
Fortune so all of these adult
experiences had to be shrunk into a
Sprint in real time to get to that
golden number recently however I was
confronted by the reality that most
people in our generation and most of you
guys may actually live up to the age of
100
years and in instead of joy of the idea
that gift of at least 20 to 25 years
more it puts the angst in my brain that
if more than half my life is still left
what is even the motion of retirement
right and and today I want to talk to
you about the from in the context of
metamorphosis of humanity work in the
age of lity if humankind today is going
to live till 100 years of age then what
does the future of work look like I want
to and let me paint this picture for you
right today we think of work really in
the context of Youth a career and
retirement around the age of 60 right
and then it become this neglected
generation of upward a 60 years old we
don't really have a full notion of what
a complete life may potentially look
like right but with the gift of that 20
plus years that you may get what does
that redefinition of life look like so
people have to work to there in their
70s or 80s okay we no longer will have a
linear career when you have your uh
single phased career life looks like
multiple phases right multiple careers
what does that look like money will be
an important motivator but when your
life is that long it no longer is your
primary motivator right and then you
will think of things like community
mental and emotional wellbe growth how
does my mind expand right so so this is
the context now let's cut to the idea of
uh what is it that this future can
potentially look like right and I want
to I I want to think of your life in the
form of an activity like a Multiverse so
and most of you are very very young so
this is the perfect time to think of for
this way think of three scenarios
scenario number one in this Multiverse
is if everything in your life go
perfectly the way you desired it most of
your MBA students so you have Notions of
being consultants and bankers and
whatever else success in this context
looks like so this this the perfect
scenario of this that's scenario number
one scenario number two is if artificial
intelligence and Robotics and automation
flips your life over and your plan a is
now obsolete what is it what talents
would you have and what potentially side
hustles you may think of that can keep
you going that's scenario number two now
let's of scenario number three and
that's my favorite which is a white card
plan that if money and reputation was
not a notion of success and you know
people would say that you've graduated
from the University of Delhi with an NBA
is this what you want to do that was no
longer a concern and you have money and
you're comfortable not be fabulously
wealthy but you're comfortable then what
is that dream like right and I always
love to think of it in the context of
three lives because it gives you
perspective and it gives you ideas on
what can the life potentially look like
um you also have to realize that the
future is sort of already here it's only
in you know distributed uh differently
so somebody's already leading one of
your three lives that is already
happening right and the last this so
these are two parts and the last part
you need to think of is if time is no
longer the motion and I'm no longer
under the pressure of a 30 or 40 or 50 m
Stone then what self-limiting beliefs am
I eliminating my self-limiting beliefs
are different example when I was in my
20s it was I should have had my life
figured out already and I'm already
doing this Masters is this what I really
want to do or I'm already on this on
this track is this what I really want to
do with my life if you throw that out of
the below then what is it that truly
motivates you and what are your values
and ideas I'm going recap this okay so
you're doing a scoping of your life you
have three scenarios right your perfect
life altern your life if everything was
flipped over and your wild life right
and then you realize if I throw
everything that is limiting me today
away and I know now what exactly
motivates me and takes me forward so
this gives you sort of like a game plan
I use this from design thinking
principles which are typically used for
projects right but if you want to think
of your life like a designer what does
that life look like is what we going to
talk about so we have entire now we have
this now I'm going throw a tool kit at
you and I will throw the idea of a
portfolio career as the first first
premise of the student right what is the
portfolio career look like all of your
life's interests all of your talents and
all of your education can give you an
opportunity to have multiple vocations
uh careers roles and responsibilities
that you can run simultaneously and
let's see how that can potentially look
like so in my case I can use myself as
an example I run an iy company but I
also have creative Pursuits that can
come from a form of art I also have some
social Pursuits that I like to Mentor
other women uh and I like to actively
participate in Sharing what I know about
my life and how I want to take you know
what what should my legacy be from a
knowledge point of view I may have some
um investment projects on the side I
have some advising projects on the side
and then I might just want to change my
life and I want to be an artist Right In
traditional life I would be like okay
till 40 I do X and then I retire and
then I go travel and live that life that
I've always wanted if I throw that
script out and I live all of these
multiple lives at the same time that's
what a portfolio career sort of affords
you right um what do I like about the
portfolio career is that you don't need
to think of life as five full-time jobs
right you can think of it as a full-time
job in one context a gig worker in one
context an adviser in one context just a
friend in one context I like to think of
this as a way to cheat your way into the
future right you're already getting a
sneak into the future you're already
seeing what are the AR intelligence that
is already doing can I steal that script
and occupy a little bit in my life
tomorrow I want to get into I don't know
fashion or gaming can I steal that
script I'm not good enough yet I still I
have certain skills that I'm very very
good at today but I want to do that when
I'm 50 or 60 or 70 what does that script
look like and I think this this is like
a fabulous way to get a sneak into that
picture live someone else's reality um
so so you have your portfolio CER your
emotions your entire skill set that you
already
and I also always recommend like and
design thinking you would prototype that
life you will try do I go back to school
at 50 and design school and learn to
become an artist what this right when I
go to school will young people genely
laugh at me because I'm in school or
will they let me happily be a part of
that ecosystem and learn and change the
script of My Life um and I'm and I'm
doing this while I'm still contining to
do my day jobs be responsible you know
family person responsible part of
society but I'm letting the inner child
in my heart continue to drive certain
things right um and when when you look
at life this way then your career really
to to my mind is three different careers
in your first career the thinking of
things that Society consider successful
so it's yes sure you have money um you
want to be in the right circles you want
to have influence you want to have
reputation right when it's a second
career I can stop thinking of money
making and start thinking of meaning
making about the notion of community
about giving back about education I want
to be smarter
faster um and I want to keep living a
fulfilling and meaningful life so so
then money stops being a primary
motivation and then I start thinking
about everything else that matters to me
in life and I can learn to give back um
and and the last absolutely last part is
to reflect I can keep reflecting and I
can keep changing back my plans because
there is today like I there is no
deadline there is no type a wrong way
it's no longer a linear path it's a
zigzag today I'm a master of uncraft but
I can choose to be an absolute novice in
something else and and that script can
flip and that's such and and I and I
like to believe that that's how
fulfilling aging growing older the
excess of life will stop feeling like a
burden and a source of angs and it will
be a fulfilling way of what the future
of humanity looks like and we are
blessed because this is and this
phenomenon is only a 50 Ro so we're
really seeing people Venture into these
Uncharted territories for the first time
they're potentially the second
generation that's seen longevity of that
nature and it's truly a thing of beauty
thank you so
[Applause]
much
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