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Replying to you is quite arbitrary. But, at some point, I have to at least raise my point. I'm a cardiologist. I see patients every day. Anyone below 70, to me
by carbocation 9y ago
Replying to you is quite arbitrary. But, at some point, I have to at least raise my point.
I'm a cardiologist. I see patients every day. Anyone below 70, to me, is young. It's important to me that they feel the same way: it's easy to get old if you feel old. There's nothing factual or evidence based here. It's just my view.
I understand that the running joke in the Valley is that you're old if you're out of your 20s. But, in my reality, 50s is extremely young.
- BatFastard 9y agoI am in my 50's and I find the vast majority of adult I know at this age range are very uncreative in their thinking. Not sure why, maybe corporate life has beat it out of them.
- oldandtired 9y agoIf you look really closely at the 20 to 30 age group, much of their creativity is a rehash of old ideas, many of which were shown to be lacking when they first came up. They are successful now not because they are good ideas but because those who support them don't know their history and the consequences thereof. In addition many in that age group has less creativity than those who are older. Following trends and fashions is a common failure amongst people. Just because something has become fashionable doesn't mean that it is good.
- interfixus 9y agoYou see? It really isn't all that easy even to sound not old.
- BatFastard 9y agoLol, problem with being old is seeing people make the same mistakes over and over again! Companies don't do the research needed, people take ideas that have been around for years, give them a new label and wala, new idea!
- foldr 9y agovoila
- BatFastard 9y agothx ;-)
- yodsanklai 9y ago> maybe corporate life has beat it out of them Good point. I see a lot (most?) of people whose life revolves around their job and their family obligations, with very little time for anything else. Even with a fulfilling job, I speculate this is detrimental to creativity.
- BatFastard 9y agoIf I did not have creativity in my life, I would wither and die.
- TheSpiceIsLife 9y agoYou know you're on your way out when the cardiologist won't offer to perform surgery because they don't believe the cost–benefit analysis adds up. The idea here is to die at the age of 92 by being hit by a bus while you were out for a jog, not because the cardiologists called it.