What and why it is worth studying after 45, 55, 65 years old
Work And Study / / December 25, 2019
Alexei Krol
Businessman, Startups, author, lecturer and filmmaker. develops free test scenarioTo help find a path of growth.
Age and competence
It was found that the level of competence of people are unevenly distributed by age. It would seem, than the person is older and the longer he is engaged in the profession, the higher should be the competencies, better results and louder than success?
However, there is not in all professions. Perhaps only in some areas of the arts: painting, music, sculpture, literature, partly in directing, in crafts, martial arts, and then under the condition of continuous practice and dense involvement in real industry.
In all other professions there is a completely different distribution of competencies of age, when the peak occurs between 30 and 40 years. At this time, people are actively immersed in real-world projects, and to a lesser extent engaged in the management.
After 40 years, many go on directly to the professional activities of the management, which inevitably reduces competence.
Some aged 30-35 years to build your business, moving to freelanceAs a result of what has to be pumped marketing, sales, accounting, business organization. On the professional growth remains less time.
Individually, the age distribution of competences range is highly dependent on the industry. There are industries such as software development, where the pace of change is so high that the peak competencies necessary on range from 25 to 35 and not much grows, because there is an active change of technologies, tools and frameworks. There are sectors where the rate of change lower, so competencies peak shifts closer to 40-45, sometimes 50 to what is already a rarity.
But anyway, there are a significant number of people older than 45, 50, 55 years old, who have a serious problem: they changed a lot of jobs, but these jobs in one degree or another date. As a result, such people are in some kind of illusion.
They continue to think that more professionals in these industries. Compared with novice amateurs - yes, but for the demands of today's market - no longer exists!
This means back to school! 45, 50, 55, 65 - is the range when it is possible and it is necessary to acquire a new profession, To open new horizons and opportunities. And why is it necessary?
why study
First the bad news
If you are a professional illiquid, then you will find an unpleasant prospect. You can continue to serve more and more simple processes, and, most likely in 10-15 years you will go under the cut. You find it difficult and almost impossible to compete with the next generation in the range of 35-45 years. Especially that the robots are coming. Therefore, we will not discuss further, why they need it: so clear. Let's talk about the benefits of getting a new profession.
The good news: there are a lot of them here!
1. Ironically, people with age not glupeyut and getting smarter. It is a proven fact. You can learn 10-20 times faster, especially complex subjects and skills. Yes, teens will overtake you in a computer shooter, but they are not even close to understand complex concepts, you intuitively understand instantly. Why? Because your knowledge, contextual space, the ability to use the terms and concepts to connect several times higher in this age. And then they will increase if you take care of it.
2. You are reading faster and, most importantly, understand faster. If the young person needs a few years to enter the profession, you will need only a few months, if you do it with the same intensity. Many people who are older than 45, they are afraid to learn, because I used to think that this is a very long time.
It's a long time, children learn and adults learn in the 100 and 200 times faster. Now you can not be afraid.
3. You see new opportunities faster when connecting with new knowledge. Why? Because chances - the flip side of problems, and only you can see them and are able to identify more and better just because you are more experienced and sophisticated in life. The problem starts startups is that they are rapidly gaining expertise in the technology, but they have no life of knowledge and understanding of the issues. So you new knowledge will give 10-20 times more opportunities than young people.
4. You upgrade your brain, and it starts to work in 3-5 times more efficient. Because the brain, like any organ, is working better than to use it more often. A training and solve new problems - the best way to upgrade. If you want to understand how this mechanism works, read the short article "What is the training from the perspective of neuroscience?».
5. Intensive training dramatically reduces the likelihood of age-related dementiaOf which up to 40 to think early and after 55 it's too late. For more on this - in my speech a presentation at TED «Non-drug approaches to active longevity».
6. New training - a new contacts, new horizons, new meanings, new countries. Children and domestic problems in the past.
There was a second youth - the time to discover the world, to get a new experience, a new experience. It's only begining.
Feel young again, again disciple leave you hampers the role of an experienced person. Experience needed to help you, but not to limit growth opportunities.
lot to learn
The general approach is based on two simple criteria.
1. What do you like, what a passion?
Often people make the mistake number 1: you are experiencing fan of many things which you know and which once faced. But there are just plenty. Much more of what you do not know and that might put you in a much stronger. In order not to make this mistake, you need to read more different trade press, to go to the event from different areas, far removed from your everyday life.
Mistake number 2: choice of profession. Profession - is only a tool to achieve and realize your desires, ideas about success. Therefore it is necessary to first understand what it looks like a picture of the success of the experience that you want. What is the role that you want to play. Once you understand this, everything becomes much easier and with the choice of profession.
2. What is promising and will develop rapidly in 5-8 years?
The calculation is simple: 5-7 months will be spent on education, about 7-9 months - at the entrance to a new area on the edge of the output (remember, that you do it quickly Young) and approximately 5 years unlimited professional, social and financial growth. Then, most likely, a transition to a higher level - management and business - or change direction again.