DON'T DISMISS 'OLD' PEOPLE ON SOCIAL MEDIA TOO QUICKLY
How old is old? In a video posted on YouTube last weekend, AARP (formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons) asked ‘millennials’ what they thought; answers ranged from somewhere between about 40-55 years old. Like most click-bait videos, shock horror, they were wrong! You should watch the video (actually made me smile a lot) but, in case you can’t right now, the gist of it is that these “old” people can do a lot more than their whippersnapper counterparts expected. Also one of the older gents is wearing a sweatshirt that says ‘San Franpsycho’ and it made me laugh. Totally worth it.
Anyway – what we learn is that older people can learn new things… and also know a load of stuff that we don’t know. It’s something I say a lot (probably too much) - you’re not going to know something if you’ve never been taught. That’s not to say you can’t also teach yourself new things, but essentially I mean there’s no embarrassment in not knowing facts, pronunciations, geography, how to make a lasagne etc., if you’ve never learned… What better example of this than the internet?