“Young People Are Just Smarter.”

hey there, it’s David H Lawrence the 17th, and I’m getting ready to head out to Denver to attend a
sort of a reunions
Of people that I’ve been associated with for a couple of decades now in a mastermind group for internet marketers some of
the biggest names in the business are part of this were part of this private group.
And I’m really excited about it because they’re people that I’ve known since long before the internet was a thing. We’ve
kind of grown up through the whole process and and what I noticed.
Was that when we get into that room?
We are all going to be much higher in an average age than most.
Tech
You know meetups or conferences.
You know, I go to Tech conferences and you know, most of the people that are there are well below my age.
And the title of this video is young people are just smarter and do you know?
You you got to understand that. It’s the incredible arrogance of Youth that caused Mark Zuckerberg. Say that because
Young people may or may not be just smarter.
You know, they’re a smart young people. They’re smart old people.
And you know, there are companies that are systematically moving older workers and by older. I don’t mean like 70 80 90. I
mean like late 30s early 40s.
I don’t know what to do with them, you know because they’ve got we’ve been encouraging young people to take stem classes
and become coders and if you don’t know what stem is it science technology.
Engineering in mathematics
And we are encouraging women to do it and and minorities and other people at risk and you know, that’s causing a huge
supply to be available of people that are you know in their twenties. So the teens really 30
And so because we’re being effective in that.
People that have been working and companies for a long time. I mean, we’re good three for five decades into the internet
Revolution depends on how you look at it.
And you know companies are sitting are going well. What are we going to do with these old people?
And again by old I mean like late 30s and above.
So if you find yourself in that situation, it’s not just in the world of technology. It’s everywhere.
The idea that younger workers are somehow more hip.
more smart
They certainly in the world of technology and other places are not cheaper.
Necessarily, right? You know, sometimes you want to replace workers that have accumulated a long history of
Increasing their salaries and moving up in the in the hierarchy of bigger paying jobs.
With people that are younger and Cost You Less as a company, sometimes that happens. It’s called ageism by the way.
And I think I have a solution for all of this. First of all for you as an older worker. If you are an older worker and in
general for companies that find themselves gone. Well, I mean, what do we do here?
You know, we’ve got people that are accumulating new skills that older workers don’t necessarily have their skilled in
other programming languages that have been around for a long time or you know coding skill sets that are more 80s 90s
2000s then 2019.
Well retraining is part of your responsibility training in general ongoing training is part of the responsibility of a
company to their workers.
So they’re stamped their team.
but for you as an older worker, I have a bit of advice in terms of
Not allowing the Zuckerberg of the world the uninformed.
Zuckerberg of the world. Let’s hope he’s
You know saw the light in the last.
You know.
Decade or so.
but for those people
Here’s how to tell them to go pound salt number one.
investigate
Alternative tracks within the company, you know, you don’t have to become a manager if you want to keep doing what you’re
doing on the line because it makes you happy.
Figure out how you can talk to your company about this rather than just let them operate in a vacuum.
And you know that goes for acting it goes for Allied field crewing things like that.
Something really makes you happy. It shouldn’t matter how old you are. And you know, I’m one of these people that
I feel as a shining example of this. I didn’t start on camera acting until I was in my late forties and I didn’t get my
first Network role until I was 50.
and so this is definitely a second act in life for me and
You don’t look at the base of actors in the world. Most of them are under the age of 35, you know.
One of the ongoing bugaboos that I hear people say is there are no rules for people over the age of 40. Now that’s false
on its face, you know, there are more rolls for people who are younger and in most cases and that has to do with how
writers write things and what people want to see what’s popular what works what network people want to do this, but you
shouldn’t hold yourself back because there’s some fries out there that you’re afraid of being true.
And that is the older people haven’t got any opportunities or don’t have as many opportunities.
First of all Explorer all the opportunities other than what you’re exactly doing right now.
within your organization
but more importantly
Tell them to go f off by.
being an entrepreneur
Put your entrepreneur hat on.
Create your own startup on the side while you’re still working at the job that you’re working at and that you love working
at.
do what they do or do something that can do what they do do what you
Feel is the most satisfying it brings you the most Joy.
Create something of your own.
that way
You don’t have to go to them and ask for permission to can I get some more? Can I get some more money a little bit more
dollars per hour or a little bit more per year.
Can I do this with the with the the product can I do this with the service?
you know write your own stuff produce your own stuff create your own stuff put that entrepreneur had on and take advantage
of something that younger people absolutely without a doubt do not have
And that is accumulated life experience.
and the wisdom
of being an older human being
You can take advantage of those things. They’re inside you and you can create what you want now for some people
entrepreneurship.
They’re not interested. I don’t I don’t want I want to go to a gas going to sit. I want to know I’ve got a job. I want to
know that I can put money in a 401k or whatever.
That’s it.
Look for us is performers and for people that watch these videos.
I feel like there is an internal Burning Flame that you can turn the knob up on and really take advantage of
And not be limited.
Buy someone’s biases by someone’s over policies by the sheer environment of the way things are built in the company that
you work for.
Make your own rules.
Do it on the side don’t don’t drop everything and hope that you’re going to make a success of what you create.
But consider that a clear option doing your own stuff creating your own content.
you know, I do an entire class on that interview to go vote curriculum and
It for a long time was the way that people would get into the Union that create their own web series and some of those web
series went on to be more than just a way to get into the Union. They became something right and we all of the
opportunities.
In the world of performance that are now available to you that weren’t available to you when you were younger.
Think about how that works. Think about how that works. Make it a car make it.
At least a consideration.
an option
And don’t let the Zuckerberg have the world get away with their ages two attitudes advocate.
for a fight against all isms sexism ageism racism
Don’t be afraid to do that. We’re in a time when people are very sensitive to
Those things are now is a great time to bring that sort of thing up if you see it happening.
Tell me what you think about this, you know, are you young and you look at old people as fogies that don’t get it.
are you old and you look at young people is annoying buzzers that you know think they know everything and they don’t think
they are, you know, invincible and impenetrable and they’re not
How do you bridge that? What do you do to bridge where you are in life?
With the reality of the work place. I’d love to know in the comments below if you’re watching this video anywhere, but
it’d be able to go go.com go over to the numeral to go. Go.com. Watch the video. Leave me a comment see what other people
are saying.
By the way, while you’re answering comments were almost at the point now. This is a episode 94.
Almost the point. We’re going to do our hundredth episode and in that hundred episode. It’s going to be an AMA young
people know what that means. It’s an ask me anything episode. So I’m going to go back and look through all the comments
that people have left and
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What I’ve been talkin about the various topics how I do this.
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