The Great Resignation has morphed into the Great Sabbatical

There are many times over the course of our lives when sabbaticals can be especially beneficial—including before college or grad school, while building families in our 30s and 40s, after moments of great loss, in pre- or early-retirement, and, more generally, for people who are thinking about gap years, when they’re taking a year off from routine, and they’re still learning, but they’re doing it in a very different way—they’re doing it more inwardly.

The Great Resignation has sort of been the Great Realization.

There’s a real need for us, as a society, to ask the question: If we’re living longer and people are working for longer, how do we still have relevance in an increasingly digital society? Why is it that we don’t have midlife wisdom schools? Why don’t we have a place where people can go and reimagine and repurpose themselves?