The 12 Stages of Life: What Your Age Reveals About What Comes Next Video

Your age influences much more than the number of candles on your birthday cake.

It helps shape where you live, what you buy, how you work, what you worry about and even what you believe gives your life meaning.

You see..there are twelve stages of human life, according to one educator who's spent decades studying them. And each one comes with a gift you only get if you actually go through it.

Question is, which one are you in right now, and are you using what it's giving you?"

Today, Simon Kuestenmacher and I explore these 12 stages of life, the particular gift each stage offers and what this framework can teach us about our families, businesses, investments and society.

This episode explores Thomas Armstrong's 12-stage model of life and how each stage offers a distinct gift, from enterprise in early adulthood to wisdom in late life.

Simon explains why age is one of the strongest predictors of how people live, buy, work, and vote, and why businesses and investors ignore life-stage shifts at their peril.

We examine the difference between life stages and generations, including how millennials, baby boomers, and other cohorts experience similar milestones in different economic and cultural conditions.

We also consider what delayed home ownership, intergenerational financial support, longer life expectancy, and changing family patterns mean for Australia's economy and property markets.

Takeaways

• Age predicts how Australians live and spend • Life stages reveal changing housing demand • Delayed adulthood extends rental market participation • Millennials will reshape Australia's midlife economy • Midlife encourages reassessment of personal priorities • Older Australians influence family wealth transfers • Parental support can reduce mortgage burdens • Longer lives increase demand for aged care • Wisdom provides perspective during economic uncertainty • Mortality awareness strengthens legacy planning

Chapters

• 03:53 - The twelve stage framework and how it differs from generations • 06:30 - Early adulthood and the gift of enterprise • 13:32 - Mature adulthood and the bank of mum and dad • 20:10 - Death, dying and the gift of life • 24:07 - What your life stage means for property decisions

About Simon Kuestenmacher

Simon Kuestenmacher is co-founder and Director – The Demographics Group.

Simon is a prolific media commentator on demographic and data matters and a columnist for The New Daily and The Australian newspapers.

He ranks as one of the world's Top 10 influencers in data visualisation. If you can't get enough of the kind of data that explains how the world works, make sure to follow Simon on LinkedIn or X (formerly Twitter) or any of his other social channels.

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About Michael Yardney

Michael Yardney - founder Metropole Property Strategists has been voted one of Australia's 50 most influential Thought Leaders.

While he is best known as a property expert, Michael is also Australia's leading expert in the psychology of success and wealth creation.

Michael is a #1 best selling author of 9 books and frequently challenges traditional finance advice with innovative ideas on property investment, personal finance and wealth creation.

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