Redesigning Age | David Harry Stewart | TEDxAsburyPark

[@blaisedominique]

Brilliance! This man knows what he's talking about. I have family who are in their mid-70's and still going so strong. I can't stand the lies all of us have been fed, how we have to fit these molds based on our ages, our successes... I love the humanity is currently in the midst of redefining what it means to live our lives.

[@sonthibutsalee]

This is gold, thanks for emailing me the link Blaise.

[@blaisedominique]

@@sonthibutsalee welcome!!

[@johnbradey]

wow great post Blaise, you find the best stuff.

[@albertwisniewski9398]

Considering where everything sits in 2020 this a refreshing talk about aging differently. Retirement, never liked that word, is a time to finally live more freely! Very inspiring.

[@risapiera]

Heck yes! Spot on!! Fabulous talk!

[@weareageist]

Such a thrill to be up on that stage! Highlight of a lifetime. Thank you TEDx AsburyPark for your mentoring and support. Great team there and I am so happy to have been part of the event.

[@deborahjholliday]

Wish I had known you were here! Now I have to fly to LAX for the first YBL conference!🤣

[@jabajaba7488]

Very good talk David!!

[@wuyattakeita3883]

I am in my late 40's and thank you, you make me feel better about taking the next steps in life.

[@archiefast]

I always wanted to be like my grandfather, he was so alive while my parents are so conservative. I understand why some older people fall through the cracks, they become stories of what not to do, my grandfather died at 88 hiking the grand canyon even though he had a bad heart. He said once to me, living to simply survive is death before it happens.

[@jabajaba7488]

Yes true, how many old men die a few days after retiring, because work was their life, I want more than that.

[@jensjfriedemann]

I heard there are 2 truths, every man will die, and only a few will truly live

[@jabajaba7488]

@@jensjfriedemann wow thats good

[@jensjfriedemann]

@@jabajaba7488 👌

[@archiefast]

@@jensjfriedemann thats awesome, I like that!!!!

[@ruthcrawford3015]

Great job! I am 64 and going strong!

[@weareageist]

Thank you! 64 is a great age, lets keep pushing ahead.

[@corinnehaig9273]

Love this, so inspiring, thank you!

[@divinedaytripper6916]

Resonant video that captures the zeitgeist of this incredible time of being alive in the second half of life. Bravo.

[@reginadreyerthomas7592]

Good job! You spoke with passion and surety, David. Worth our time to continue to think about.

[@braulio.zamora]

My grandfather still works, he is 89, and he drinks his one whisky a day and 1 cigar. he says hard work deserves daily pleasure.

[@LarryCornett]

Great job, David! I completely redefined my career after 50 to create my "next act" and I'm loving it.

[@weareageist]

Awesome Larry! That takes guts, but shows that we can change what is not working for us.

[@WENDICOOPER]

Couldn't agree more with how people (I'm 64) are spoken to in advertising these days - I like to say - We love a Harley and a really nice leather jacket not Bingo at the Rec Center.

[@johnbradey]

I am not there yet but closing in, I thank you though, I am not ready to be put out to be put out to pasture and forgotten, and I don't ever want to be.

[@francinetolf7903]

Positive and inspiring!

[@valeriedijkstra]

Of course we're not done yet, we have a lot of repair and care work to do!

[@da-AL]

love it! strong people are hard to kill!

[@weareageist]

Ha! You have seen our tote bags. Yes, stay strong, live long!

[@snörre23]

I feel this only becomes a problem when you make an issue of it at all. Though not easy to ignore also. 54 now and i barely feel and live much different than half my age, actually i don't quite understand how it would happen that social identity, "social age" or phase of life changes as long as you stay healthy, i basically lived the same life since i was early twenties. At this point though i don't know where i belong to, most people my age actually DO "act their age" being parents, grandparents, having a carreer and stuff i just left out, also try to find a girlfriend at mid 50s that does not act like an old woman, i have not met a single one in the whole last decade of my life.

[@dondon98]

People are Changing their lives at any age now. In the past 20 years with the failing economic climate people became less mobile in a sense moving or traveling to other places and living differently or changing their quality of life decreased in my opinion.

[@weareageist]

Good point, makes sense that economics and mobility are linked.

[@dondon98]

AGEIST I mean if im in an area where meeting a great person is my goal but that just isnt here and the finances wont allow me to move to where there are better # s then it looks as if im stuck or selectively single. It does make sense about the Chattanooga TN area....

[@ellaantoinette]

Interesting talk, however the other side of the coin is employment is hampered by a growing elderly population. Good young people are left with lower job chances. And the elderly are costing more to take care of. As uncomfortable as this sounds, it is a discussion we need to have!

[@briansmiga617]

Time has come for boomers to generate value and stewardship in their best years. I'm committed to maximizing our contribution.

[@joanguckel]

so that you may payback the ways in which you've cost future generations?

[@jacksonholerose]

Wow, this stat: 40% of the American pop is over the age of 50... & I also agree with David >> I'm not down with this either: Let's move these people over to some kind of semi-invisible medicalized group over here... Let's redesign aging in America!