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Living the 100-Year Life
How to build a career that lasts and a life you love
Living the 100-Year Life
How to build a career that lasts and a life you love
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Description
'Each chapter is a treasure trove' - Carole Kauffman
'You'll walk away seeing yourself not as a stranger, but as a collaborator' - Daniel H. Pink
How will you live your 100-year life?
In a world of longer lives and constant change, work is no longer a single straight path. It is a fabric we weave – with threads of mastery, friendship, calm, intimacy, adventure, cooperation, knowing, and amplification. How we strengthen and reweave these threads will shape not just our working lives, but our happiness, health, and sense of purpose across a century.
In Living the 100-Year Life, Lynda Gratton – acclaimed co-author of The 100-Year Life – offers a practical and deeply human guide to navigating this new reality. Drawing on global research, expert voices, and the stories of four fictional characters at different life stages, Gratton shows how to:
· Discover what each of the eight threads can make possible for you
· Strengthen the threads through reflection, action, and promises to your future self
· Weave a working life that is resilient, meaningful, and uniquely yours
This is not a book about extending life for its own sake. It is a book about living wisely across time – finding joy in friendships, resilience in calm, creativity in adventure, and purpose in work.
Your 100-year life is still being woven. The threads are in your hands.
Product details
| Published | Sep 08 2026 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781399432955 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Continuum |
| Illustrations | Integrated b&w illustrations |
| Dimensions | 9 x 6 inches |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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Living the 100-Year Life is a deceptively simple and elegant book, useful for you and a great resource for coaches and therapists alike. It provides an operating model for the soul as it unpacks each aspect of life and how to live it better. You will hear a wise voice in your ear, sharing what you need to know to build a better foundation for your life if you are 15 or 95. Each chapter is a treasure trove.
Carol Kauffman, Founder and Executive Director, Institute of Coaching, Harvard Medical School
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With her characteristic blend of big ideas and engaging stories, Lynda Gratton shows readers how to turn extra decades into a design challenge – one you can approach with curiosity and a bias for smart experiments rather than grand plans. Read this book if you suspect, as she does, that the real economic miracle of our age is not just that we live longer, but that we have the chance to become more fully ourselves while we do.
Amy C Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership, Harvard Business School; Author, Right kind of wrong: The science of failing well
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Lynda Gratton has written a provocative book that encourages you to reflect on how your needs and desires will evolve over the course of your 100-year life. She relies on stories, including her own, and research (from the impact of your childhood to emerging technologies) to reveal how you can choose experiences and relationships to prepare you for a career that will not unfold in a predictable or linear fashion. Given the exponential change of today and tomorrow, how can you weave the threads of your past and present to create a meaningful future?
Linda A. Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, Faculty Chair, Leadership Initiative, Harvard Business School
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Lynda Gratton has done it again. Living the 100-Year Life is a beautifully written, profoundly human, and deeply practical guide to the future of work and life. With her trademark mix of empathy and evidence, she shows how longevity, technology, and purpose are reshaping what it means to build a career (and professional identity) across time. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to thrive, not just survive, in the age of longer, amplified lives.
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Professor of Business Psychology at UCL, co-founder of DeeperSignals, and Chief Science Officer at Russell Reynolds Associates
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Lynda Gratton hands us a challenge: Stop living by outdated scripts and start designing a life and career that stretch across decades of reinvention, contribution, and connection. She doesn't just ask who you are. She forces you to confront who you're becoming. It's an essential guide for anyone who wants to lead, grow, and thrive over a 100-year arc.
Keith Ferrazzi, New York Times bestselling author of Never Eat Alone and Leading Without Authority
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Lynda Gratton is a pioneer in thinking about what it means to live a long and meaningful life. If you want to expand your understanding of what's possible – for you, your loved ones, and society – read this book to get a glimpse of the future.
Dorie Clark, executive education faculty at Columbia Business School and Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of The Long Game

























