How to survive a life quake with Chip Conley
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How to survive a life quake with Chip Conley

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 22, 202657 min
  • Interview
  • Relationships & psychology

We all know the stereotypical story of the midlife crisis: leave your spouse, buy the red convertible, start from scratch and blow up your whole life. But for most people, the transitional period of midlife is a little more complicated, and it doesn’t have to feel like a crisis. Chip Conley founded Joie de Vivre Hospitality in his 20s, and built it into one of the largest boutique hotel companies in the country—but then the Great Recession, a near-death experience, and other personal tragedies forced him to reevaluate his ambitions. Now Chip is the founder of the Mode...

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Someone said to me as I moved to Baja, so are you gonna learn Spanish? And I said, no, I'm too old to learn a foreign language. And then they said, are you gonna learn to surf?

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And I said, no, I'm too old to learn to surf. And then they said to me something really amazing. They said, 10 years from now, will you still live here in Mexico?

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And I said, well, I probably will part-time, I love it here. And they said, 10 years from now, will you regret that you didn't learn Spanish

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