Harry Rick Moody is a pillar in the field of conscious aging, a renaissance man who has contributed to the field through various senior positions, books and articles, talks, as well as his generous willingness to share wisdom with fellow learners like me!
He retired as Vice President and Director of Academic Affairs for AARP in Washington, DC. and is still going strong with contributions to his community and the field. We talk about how to live vitally at this time of life, why it can be so challenging to write about aging, why we need to change the story about aging, what leadership after 50 might look like, and how to practice detachment without backing away from life, among other topics
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Highlights and quotes from the episode:
“Aging is the school of nobodies — first half of life we are trying to become a somebody…”
“We need hope. It has to be hope that enables us to deal with our pain at seeing what’s going on in the world around us.”
“We need to take disillusionment seriously,..There are the clouds but the possibility of something much bigger beyond.”
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More about our guest:
Dr. Moody is a graduate of Yale with a doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University, Dr. Moody has been a leading researcher in the field of aging. He is the author of over 100 scholarly articles, as well as a number of books. His most recent, The Five Stages of the Soul, has been translated into seven languages worldwide. In 2011 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society on Aging; in 2010, the Robert Kahn Award for Successful Aging, from Masterpiece Living and in 2008 he was named by Utne Reader magazine as one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.”
He is currently Visiting Professor at Tohoku University in Japan, and Distinguished Faculty at Fielding Graduate University. Dr. Moody previously served as Executive Director of the Brookdale Center on Aging at Hunter College and Chairman of the Board of Elderhostel (now Road Scholar).
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