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ChainedExistence -> RE: Are Younger People Smarter than Older People? (7/31/2007 12:42:24 AM)
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I don 't agree that young people are more creative by virture of their age. If anything, creativity seems to defy classification into age groups. Some people are original thinkers throughout their entire lives while others never seem to think outside the box. I don't believe that age means you act and think as you always have. In fact, a creative older person would be less inclined to take a familar path. I am a curious woman, and I think my curiosity makes me open to many ideas. I am commonly called on in my job to come up with something different from the norm. I don't think I'm creative because I'm older or younger...I am just a creative person. An advantage age might provide are finances and opportunities to engage in creative pursuits, but creative thinking isn't dependent on that by any means. I'm hardly the old geezer sitting in the rocking chair passing down knowledge of all the old ways of doing things. While I have the ability to use information I already know, I would never rely on that alone. Things change too rapidly to rest on old ideas and old ways of doing things, and I like to be an innovator, ( who can still reminisce about the 'good old days" without hoping everything would stay the same.)
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ORIGINAL: CuriousLord
IYounger people are far more able to think freely and creatively. Their minds are still undeveloped, true, but they're also developing, which leaves them able to develope incredible levels of base-level thought. (At twenty-one years of age, I can confirm that, at least for me, that the true extent of this ability has come and gone in earlier years.)
Older people, whilenot able to think so freely, do have the old thought processes in place, many of which may be well-trained. They are able to analyze and act as they always have- though they have significantly greater difficulty thinking outside of those thought processes, almost always to the extent that they can not even realize when something deviates from their normal analyzation.
In my view, humans were truly meant to be mortal. We grow- learn- and do our best. After our formative years, in which we benifit from our elders' conclusions and our own free thought, we grow to have new abilities. In our elder years, we pass parts of those down, benifitting the new generation, along with their starting the cycle over, with their new contributions.
PS- To me, the mind developing- thinking in new ways- is what it means to actually "think" at the most creative level. As we get older, "creativity" becomes putting together old facts and methods in interesting, perhaps even grand, ways- but it's not so much new, just realizing things that the person already had the capacity for.
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