The wisdom of the young

drchimpanzee

I'm a cynic for life so I feel like young people are no dumber than old people, generally speaking. Older people just get better at selling their bulls*** and masking their stupidity with the assertion that with age comes wisdom. Total nonsense.

Logical_Integrity

This is the age of information. I'm going to take advice from someone in the 18 - 22 year old range who seems to have their head on straight before someone in their 40s who feels that surviving another couple of decades on account of being born earlier makes them a sage in all things. I've seen plenty of people in their 30s and 40s recommend silliness like juice cleanses and laxatives to lose weight. Dr. Phil is 62.

You have a personal responsibility to take any advice you are given with a grain of salt. Critical thinking and common sense are a personal imperative and should you choose not to employ them, it's at your own peril.

There are many people over 22 that have their "head on straight". Once again, it has nothing to do with age. Anyone who thinks it does needs to seek out every 18-22 year old you speak of because you are lacking and need them badly.

HunterKiller_wechange2

im 36 and wise from all the stupid things that i did in my 20s! Well most of them anyway
On saying that though there are some very level headed younger people on here.

DandelionCupcakes

I haven't read any of the responses, because I don't want to see the back and forth really. I just want to say that on this site I don't go by age, I go by pounds lost.

If you're good at something, I will take advice from you. If I need advice about aging, I probably won't ask someone younger than me. However, if a 40 year old has lost 10 pounds and has a goal of losing 200...why wouldn't it make sense for them to ask me, a 20 year old, for advice?

Same with anything. There are 13 year olds who know more about gardening than me, if I need gardening advice I might just ask one.

Funny thing is, you clearly didn't even read the OP. I never once mentioned weight loss in this thread.

Sorry for assuming you (the Op as you so lovingly refer to yourself as) was talking about weight loss.
Especially on a site about fitness.

If you don't want advice from a twenty year old don't take it. I don't understand why you feel like you need to post a thread about it. Its just seems mean to me.

You'd think in all your years on earth you might learn that being rude as hell completely unprovoked isn't a good way to go about things.

There are younger people than me who could still offer solid advice about things. To close yourself off from listening to someone just because they're younger than you is foolish. I prefer to listen to everyone and just filter.

mank32

it takes EITHER uncommon wisdom OR experience to know that you don't know.

if you don't know what you don't know, you think you know stuff. easier to realize you don't know stuff at 40-something than at 20-something, usually. not all that difficult to understand...

leotardbanshee

i would say i know more about nutrition at 25 than most of the older people i know. really you should look at people's credibility rather than their age before listening to them. I'm not going to take advice from a 40 year old taking raspberry ketones and drinking green coffee. i know i thought i knew a lot at age 18, now i realize that there is a lot to learn in this world, and age is not necessarily indicative of wisdom. i feel like many of the people that are older have been brainwashed by the military industrial complex and what that has done to the food industry. Processed foods are good, lean cuisines are great! There's a magic pill I can take to fix this. Give me a break. I know my parents had no idea about how to eat healthy or how their eating habits were affecting the planet, and i spent years reprogramming my brain from the bad habits they taught me in order to get to where i am today. stereotyping people's intelligence based upon their age is just another way to build up a wall to push new information out of your mind. you never know what new ideas a person could have to offer if you discredit them immediately. who knows maybe when i'm 40 i'll be old and jaded and bitter too and forget what it was like to be 18, guess we'll see.

DalekBrittany

This thread has gone from indignant 20-somethings to the grammar police. Interesting, but I'll take it. Funnily enough, making fun or picking apart someone's grammar is more likely to get you a lock or get you reported than making a blanket statement that some people won't agree with. I have a strike for doing the same thing :sad: If you brag about having a Master's, learn to type properly, that's all I'm saying!

DalekBrittany

Also, I don't think I know everything...actually I feel like I don't know as much as I should for my age group. My fiance is in my age range (23) and I feel like he knows tons more than I do, perhaps because we were educated in different states. Is that normal, to have everyone else perceive you as if you think you know everything, when really you feel like you don't know much at all yet?

ETA: my goodness, maybe he knows more than I do because he's 23 now?! He's out of the 'stupid' age group of 18-22??? Good God I've been thinking about this all wrong!!!

diodelcibo

I'm 93, bow down to my power level...

5n0wbal1

Requiring standard English, free from argot and other linguistic dalliances in an informal setting such as a forum just highlights a lack of fluency of the written form. Slang, text speak and all the modern language ruptures are part of the transience of language and thought; it's a living structure with its own fluidity that we can either playfully embrace or staidly criticize.

The constant use of weak language does point out an inability to either refine thought or communicate it but no more or less than having a long broomstick up the linguistic posterior oriffice. Be flexible, it's just easier.

Edit: oh, there are idiots of every age.

Thank you. Made me laugh, and so true.

Read a book in classic literature. Read something by Dostoevesky or Dante. I bet those gentlemen would think the language of our present 40-50 year old set to be horrendous and, yes, lazy. Language evolves; it evolved for you, now come with us as it continues to evolve.

KtotheD78

*lol* Wellll, my 6 year old knows that sugar is bad
She is picking up on some of my new habits, as is my 10 year old.
We talk about which foods are good, healthy choices.
They are starting to make their own decisions and I let them.
I don't want them to end up with an ED so I don't use food as a punishment/reward or force them to eat food/everything on plate.
I just want them to be informed. They already like a variety and we hardly ever eat fast food or much sugar so I think I am doing good
I think that the age bracket recommended to "ignore" is probably somewhat true but nutrition is something easily learned, researched and picked up on. I believe that my daughters will know, at that age, a lot more than some people would give credit for or realize that they could know. Kids are pretty smart these days.
You can tell when something doesn't make any sense and this comes from ALL age groups.

MizTerry

Totally agree OP.

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