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Perhaps you're still generating the same amount of ideas it's just that you're brain is better at filtering out the bad/impractical ones at an early stage? The

by indy 3y ago

Perhaps you're still generating the same amount of ideas it's just that you're brain is better at filtering out the bad/impractical ones at an early stage? The obvious downside being that maybe some of the assumptions you hold based on experience may not apply anymore.

hef19898 3y ago
Thebopposite is also true, with properly trained filters you are going to pursue stuff that has no chance to work. Almost like you need a healthy of people (age, sexe, culture...).
Aromasin 3y ago
There's also a certain art to working on something that won't work, long enough that the act of failing triggers new innovations. If you know from the offset it's not possible, then you leave yourself closed to the opportunities that lay in the act of solving an impossible problem.
- soco 3y ago
  Unless you have a limited amount of time/energy and get it spent on fool's errands. Maybe youth is less conscious about this - time, energy, we have it all - while the older will rather throw the baby with the bathwater. Is there a golden age where these two tendencies balance each other? Or we can only get it in diverse teams?
hutzlibu 3y ago
"Perhaps you're still generating the same amount of ideas it's just that you're brain is better at filtering out the bad/impractical ones at an early stage?" Definitely one factor. "The obvious downside being that maybe some of the assumptions you hold based on experience may not apply anymore." For technical things I don't think so, as I keep up. The danger I am seeing, is rather that I might dismiss ideas, because I failed at implementing similar ideas in the past because I lacked the skills/ressources. I know some old people developed this habit towards the young. Since they failed at it, how could those stupid young people succeed ... so making sure they will not.
- indy 3y ago
  Yes, that sounds like a much better explanation

by indy 3y ago

hef19898 3y ago

Thebopposite is also true, with properly trained filters you are going to pursue stuff that has no chance to work. Almost like you need a healthy of people (age, sexe, culture...).

Aromasin 3y ago

There's also a certain art to working on something that won't work, long enough that the act of failing triggers new innovations. If you know from the offset it's not possible, then you leave yourself closed to the opportunities that lay in the act of solving an impossible problem.

soco 3y ago
Unless you have a limited amount of time/energy and get it spent on fool's errands. Maybe youth is less conscious about this - time, energy, we have it all - while the older will rather throw the baby with the bathwater. Is there a golden age where these two tendencies balance each other? Or we can only get it in diverse teams?

hutzlibu 3y ago

"Perhaps you're still generating the same amount of ideas it's just that you're brain is better at filtering out the bad/impractical ones at an early stage?" Definitely one factor. "The obvious downside being that maybe some of the assumptions you hold based on experience may not apply anymore." For technical things I don't think so, as I keep up. The danger I am seeing, is rather that I might dismiss ideas, because I failed at implementing similar ideas in the past because I lacked the skills/ressources. I know some old people developed this habit towards the young. Since they failed at it, how could those stupid young people succeed ... so making sure they will not.

indy 3y ago
Yes, that sounds like a much better explanation