We discuss why collecting that gold watch and retiring at 65 might not be the best thing and why it’s time to change the retirement narrative.

A lot has changed since Otto von Bismark invented retirement in 1883: we live much longer, more and more of us do knowledge work, and the latest research shows that our brains don’t actually decline as we get older. Could retirement be making us worse off mentally, physically, financially? What if it’s also bad for the economy? We hear from psychiatrists, former Prime Ministers, linguists, retirees, academics, engineers and advocates, and discuss what can be done to unlearn retirement.

You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/never-retire-unlearn-retirement/

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Coming soon… we look at retiring retirement. We talk with a leading mental health researcher, an economist, a former Prime Minister, Nobel Prize winners, a linguist, and an octogenarian human computer.

Stay tuned in 2022 for more episodes of The Unlearn Project, our podcast about changing common sense. Hosts Sandra Peter and Kai Riemer will continue to unlearn old wisdoms and discover new ones. From Sydney Business Insights at the University of Sydney Business School.

You can find links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/the-unlearn-project/

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In this extra episode, we take a deep dive into the history of the music industry. We go down rabbit holes that take us from Victorian England to Sydney harbour in the 70s and then on to the hip hop culture of New York in the 80s. We trace the music industry as it resisted and adapted to the rise of new technologies and came to understand music as a product. We hear from a leading researcher on popular music, the creator of the first music sampler, a renowned hip hop artist, and even Thomas Edison…

You can find transcripts, links for the curious and more episodes on our website: https://sbi.sydney.edu.au/extra-a-music-deep-dive-on-the-unlearn-project/

Is there something you think we need to unlearn? Send your ideas to sbi@sydney.edu.au. We read your emails.

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