About this episode

Valerie Tiberius discusses the profound re-evaluation of life that retirement brings and offers a framework for understanding personal values and goals.

Retirement triggers one of the most profound re-evaluations many people will ever face. A career ends. Structure disappears. Identity shifts. And suddenly a question that could be put off — What do I really want out of life? — becomes more urgent and unavoidable. Valerie Tiberius has spent her career building a useful framework for exactly that question. Her insights offer you something much more valuable than advice on life from your Financial Advisor – a way of thinking about your values, goals, and well-being in one of the most important transitions of your lifetime. Valerie Tiberius joins us from Minnesota. __________________________ Bio Valerie Tiberius is the author of What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters (Princeton University Press, 2023). She is the Paul W. Frenzel Chair in Liberal Arts and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota, where she has taught since 1998. Her work sits at the crossroads of philosophy and psychology — specifically, how both disciplines illuminate what it means to live well. She is the author of four additional books, including The Reflective Life: Living Wisely with Our Limits…

People in this episode

Host: Retirement Wisdom

Guest: Valerie Tiberius

Topics covered

• retirement planning
• philosophy
• personal values
• well-being
• life transitions

Keywords

• retirement
• values
• goals
• well-being
• philosophy

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Minnesota

Books & works: What Do You Want Out of Life? A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters, Artificially Yours: Real Friendship in a World of Chatbots

Places: Minnesota

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