Why Retirement Is the Wrong Idea

Thirty years of expertise doesn't expire on a birthday — why the best years might still be ahead, not behind.

I don't believe in retirement. Never have. I think it's one of the strangest ideas we ever collectively agreed to, that somewhere around sixty, people who've spent thirty years getting genuinely brilliant at something should just stop.

Some of the sharpest, most capable people I know are sitting at home right now because somebody told them their working life was over. It isn't. It's just changed shape. Everything they built up over decades doesn't expire on a birthday.

That's what gets me excited about this. Watching someone who thought their best years were behind them realise they might actually be about to have their best years yet. Not winding down. Levelling up, except this time with everything they've already learned behind them instead of ahead of them.

If you've still got more to give, that's really the only qualification that matters to us.