“You’re over the hill by 30” (Einstien).
It takes 10k hours of study to excel (Gladwell)
Or, think again!
Good stuff, creativity, originality and success continue happening way into old age.
Before falling in line with society’s ageist propaganda, watch Jonathan Sackner-Bernstein.
Conflict causes misery and burns up energy that would otherwise used productively. But it doesn’t have to be like this.
If you are involved in a dispute at work (or elsewhere) here are some things you can do to start to resolve it.
The original meaning of the phrase has been generalised to become an unconscious script in many situations, to a point where staff on the receiving end of bad behaviour think that they must submit to discourteous behaviour and mistreatment.
Time for a change to keep up with the times.
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Difficult people at work? We all know they exist, and mostly we work round them. But this general epithet ‘difficult person’ hides deep roots that are sometimes difficult to deal with. Eberybody has to rub along together at work, right? After all, most of us work in teams and being a team-player is understood to be a tstandard requirement…right? Well, of course not.
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One Response to “Over the Hill by 30? Think Again”
For a theoretical physicist like Einstein, most productive work, the big hits, do strongly tend to happen under 30. R
Einstein was finished after 30,no more breakthroughs, just quotes and fame. Not so for most of us.