How to be old lessons in living boldly from the accidental icon

A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as "Accidental Icon," brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age. When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog at age sixty-one, she disc...

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Main Author: Slater, Lyn (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Plume, [2024]
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505 0 |a Prologue -- 60 : predict the future -- 61 : take advantage of lucky accidents -- 62 : weave a web of connections -- 63 : fear not risks and welcome mistakes -- 64 : remain visible -- 65 : don't be influenced (even in you're an influencer) -- 66 : always balance risk and reward -- 67 : learn to do improv -- 68 : make your house your home -- 69 : let the old become new again. 
520 |a A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as "Accidental Icon," brings her characteristic style, optimism, forward-thinking, and rules-are-meant-to-be-broken attitude to the question of how to live boldly at any age. When Lyn Slater started her fashion blog at age sixty-one, she discovered that followers were flocking to her account for more than just her A-list style. As Lyn flaunted gray hair, wrinkles, and a megadose of self-acceptance, they found in her an alternative model of older life: someone who defied the stereotypes, refused to become invisible, and showed that all women have the opportunity to be relevant and take major risks at any stage of their life. Youth is not the only time we can be experimental. Rather than trying to meet standards of youth and beauty as a measure of successful aging, Lyn promotes a more inclusive and empowering standard to judge our older selves by: while you can't control everything, what you can control is the way you think about your age and the creative ways you respond to the changes in your mind and body as they happen. Lyn exemplifies that even with its unique challenges, being old is just like any new beginning in your life. 
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