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Lynda Gratton: What If You Live to 100? Here's How to Actually Plan For It SB1898

Sep 16, 2026 · 1h 7m

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The traditional life plan, learn, work for four decades straight, retire once and for all, was built for a much shorter life than many of us are actually going to live. Lynda Gratton, London Business School professor and bestselling author of The 100-Year Life, has spent years studying what happens when that old blueprint stops matching reality. Her answer isn't a bigger retirement number. It's a completely different way of thinking about how work, rest, learning, and relationships fit together across a much longer stretch of time, and what that means for how you actually fund it.What You'll Walk Away WithWhy a single, long block of retirement often backfires, and what tends to happen to…