The Myth Of Age (Why You Have The Correct Age To Do Whatever You Want)
“I am to old for that”, “I am to young for that” or “come into my age and you will see…”.
Everywhere I hear such phrases of excusing. Really in my opinion it is excusing. It just tells me, you do not want to do the thing you are excusing for.
Whether it is the guy middle aged with backpain, who doesn’t want to move to life healthier or the 20 year old graduate, who thinks experience comes with age.
I won’t talk about a single person, because one never knows whether this person may be had an accident, which really causes an injury the person only hardly could avoid, and therefore has a bad back or some brain disease.
But if you’re a person, which has a bad back or something comparable because you didn’t care about yourself, then I would like to know, why the hell don’t you get on the road and train for your health?!
The people around you tell you, you’re too old for that or you think pain and a “bad memory” comes with age?
What if not?
What if you had the control about your body and mind at every second?
Wouldn’t that be great?
Okay admittedly, I am okay if you are 100 years old and your body simply gets old. But I am deeply convinced, that if you are under 100 years old and your body isn’t as old as you might think, you can learn more things and you can train and get better in some way.
“Younger people learn easier and faster”
This phrase nearly everybody takes for granted. But what if this is not the case?
Let me ask you. What do you think, who is learning faster, the 40 years old professor of an university, who is hungry and passionated for new knowledge daily or the 20 years old graduate, who even cannot bake a pizza without the fire alarm turning on?
Admittedly this example may be a bit harsh, but I think my point is potentially clear.
My point is training! Training your body and training your mind.
If you don’t train your body and your mind on a regular basis you will unlearn your ability to learn new things from time to time. So it makes sense, you get slower in learning new stuff.
We live in a time, in which “9 to 5 jobs” are still common. But day by day they are reducing. The middle aged people started at a different time, where self-realization wasn’t valued as much as it is now. And I don’t want to criticize them, because they did, what they thought was the right way.
But times are changing! A significant part of these middle aged people hand over this attitude to the younger generations, an attitude that clearly splits people by their ages.
I cannot tell you how much I think, that splitting people by age is a convention, we should stop immediately!
There is no good or bad memory. There is only a trained and an untrained memory. — Jim Kwik —
I am totally convinced by this attitude of Jim Kwik. This is a question of your belief. If you believe you can train your mind independent of the age, you will be able to grow at anytime.
When I think about this approach, an experience from my last skiing vacation pops up in my mind.
I talked to a guy, who was between 40 and 50 years old. He told me, he learned skiing at the age of 33. Beside my positive impression, that he was still open for new things, one part of the conversation is still present in my head. He told me: “Kids learn skills in an hour, for which people of my age need two days.”
I can really understand this thinking, because it is still so present in our current society, but nowadays I am not convinced of this opinion anymore.
I am participating at a course by Jim Kwik, the man from the quote above. He taught people, who were far older than 40 or 50 and they still made an amazing progress.
He convinced me, that our brains are more extraordinary, than I thought until short time ago.
And by thinking about learning and learning how to learn I am at a point now, at which I think, that most people just don’t practice the ability to learn on a regular basis and such learn new things slower from time to time.
There might be some issues, that will support the statement, older people learn slower than younger ones.
But I am sure, the current picture of society shows this potential fact too extreme.
There is no age, at which nobody can learn something new!
There is no age, where learning stops!
And there is no age where consistency isn’t the key for real long term progress!
Think of these words, if you catch yourself saying “Come into my age and you will see…”, “I am too old for this” or “learning is more difficult in my age”.
I am sure we can achieve more than we think!
When you think you’ve done all you can do, and you can’t do no more, do some more! — Steve Harvey —
