I'm in that demographic. I think older workers should also continue to stay humble while learning to accept things that they don't know instead of trying to fit it into their existing knowledge-base. Attitude can do wonders.
Not to detract from your statement but I had to link this. I really don't have an answer except humor. "Black men holding a Starbucks cup!" Funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYhXXRXiJBU
Ha, ya, and that is such a stupid, young person thing to say.
It's just not true in almost any case.
I used to compete in high school and collegiate trivia competitions and so I spent a long time studying for those type of competitions. I have a good memory and could remember a great deal of what I had read. But I quickly learned that there were only so many hours in the day, and I had only been alive for so many days.
It is just extremely hard to out study or out smart years and years of experience. When someone has been alive and cognitively able for 20+ years more than another person, they will inevitably have come across more information than the younger person could possibly have digested. Even if they aren't really trying and don't have the best memory.
This is not to say that knowing facts = smart. But just like being alive a lot longer gives you more facts, it also gives you a lot more experience.
Being young might mean you can think and learn a little faster, but I'll take knowledge and experience over speed any day.
It's Facebook, it's not William Kahan working at HP on floating-point math algorithms for memory-constrained calculators. Nowadays it's just library lego instead of deep work.
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[ 0.21 ms ] story [ 26.8 ms ] threadYes, attitude can work wonders when you are a black man and encounter police in the South.
“I want to stress the importance of being young and technical. Young people are just smarter.”
This remark will not age well.
It's just not true in almost any case.
I used to compete in high school and collegiate trivia competitions and so I spent a long time studying for those type of competitions. I have a good memory and could remember a great deal of what I had read. But I quickly learned that there were only so many hours in the day, and I had only been alive for so many days.
It is just extremely hard to out study or out smart years and years of experience. When someone has been alive and cognitively able for 20+ years more than another person, they will inevitably have come across more information than the younger person could possibly have digested. Even if they aren't really trying and don't have the best memory.
This is not to say that knowing facts = smart. But just like being alive a lot longer gives you more facts, it also gives you a lot more experience.
Being young might mean you can think and learn a little faster, but I'll take knowledge and experience over speed any day.