On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 10:02:27 EDT, Bill Fairchild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Older people also have more wisdom in general than younger people. In order >to learn, one must be teachable (aka humble) and pay attention to one's >teacher. Younger people are often not yet teachable because they are too >full of >themselves. It takes some of us a long time to grow up. As an older person, I often see the opposite. The strength of older people is that we often do not need to learn new stuff to solve the problem - we have all the shortcuts. We can see this watching older athletes play. The new guys don't use our paths, but build their own paths. Some of those paths are better than ours, taking them to places we didn't dream of visiting. It's harder to teach old dogs new tricks though, and we continue on our comfortable ways. The shortcuts give us tremendous advantage - until the destination changes. Then the young guys' willingness to explore gives them the advantage as they find the new shortcuts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
