When Retirement Planning, Stay Curious! A client recommended I listen to this week’s edition of BBC Radio 4’s Start The Week and that was where I discovered Lani Watson’s book Q: The Hidden Power of Questions in a World That Wants Answers. In this book she explains that, when curious about something, the act of then asking a question creates a little dopamine hit for the brain’s reward system. In that moment we become more receptive not just to the answer we seek, but recepti

My late father-in-law, Jim, retired at 60 and spent the next 38 years pottering happily — gardening, grand-parenting and living life at a gentler pace. He represented the end of an era. For most people leaving work in their 50s or 60s today, the old model of work → stop → leisure no longer fits. Many don’t want to retire — and most simply can’t afford to fund a life-stage that could last 40 years. Welcome to the age of ‘the 100-year life’, the subject of a fascinating book