Molly Graham

There were some decisions I might not make again, knowing what I know now, but I only know what I know now, because I'm

Made those mistakes, you know, but I think that people gain wisdom from lots of different things.

Like there's lots of different types of learners in the world.

I'm an experiential learner.

I need to like experience things in order to like truly internalize them.

Some folks can really learn from a book or learn from a podcast and decide not to do the thing.

But to me, more what I find with listening to other people's stories or watching folks that I work with in my communities, learn is like, it's so valuable to hear other people's stories because...

Often, it sort of helps you orient yourself like a little bit of a compass.

Sometimes you're in a little tornado and you're like, I don't know which way is up or down or sideways or north or south or east or west.

And somebody tells you a story of a time that they were in a tornado.

And it might not be exactly the same tornado, but it just lets you be like, oh, I know which way north is all of a sudden.

So it isn't to say that it saves you.

It's more that it helps you make sense of your own experience, I think, sometimes, at least for me.

Elise, I want to hear your answer to this.

You know, I actually think reinvention is part of midlife.

It's one of the things that I'm really witnessing in like all of my friends.

I think it hits people at very different times and there's like a different...

cause, you know, but for me, midlife has been about realizing that what matters to me is different.

And that what I thought mattered to me when I was 20 is just different.

I was leading wilderness trips, which was a form of teaching.