There are much talk regarding to why our parent’s generation (born in 1950s and 1960s) are screwing up so badly, since our grandparent’s generation (born before 1950) retire and our parent’s generation took over in leadership roles. However, in Cupid’s opinion it is simple. (1) I remember once in college, I was listening to a radio talk show, the psychologist said when she was young, she once talked to this old lady what she was like before she grew up, the old lady laughed and said “I am 78 years old and I am still growing up.” And that is the first point, growing old, only mean having more experience points, but not unlimited experience points, in addition (2) the thing about experience is that, some people excel in a task, after only practicing three times, while other practice ten times and still can’t do it right, further more (3) there are certain things that can only be learned via experience or practice, but there are other things that can only be learned via training, education or research. Our grandparent’s generation understand this concept thus, they are always improving themselves. I remember when I was in primary school, my grandma despite been in her 60s, was still learning new skills. When we were little kids and our grandparent’s generation was the world leaders and senior management, we were always taught in school, “learning doesn’t end at school”. I especially remember when I was ten years old, an elderly professor refers to learning in school, to be like buying a MacDonald meal set and learning after school, is like ordering a single item, from the menu.
But our parent’s generation, too many of them doesn’t understand that and they think after a certain age, they automatically got unlimited experience points and to be expert in every topic, so they go around screaming “I’m not 40 years for shit!” “I’m not 50 years old for shit!” “I’m not 60 years old for shit!”, despite a lot of time they are “40, 50 or 60 years old for shit”, because they face a problem require a lot more experience point then they got or an area of expertise they don’t have.
Confucius once said that those who are over confident, under estimate the difficulty of situation. While those who are under confident is afraid to do anything. Dr. Phil says those who are over confident, overestimate their ability, while those who are under confident, under estimate their ability. So, it is important to know our strength and weakness and know when to listen to advice and when to be authoritarian. People that are arrogant and over confident only knows when to be authoritarian, but doesn’t know when to take advice. People that are under confident know when to take advice, but doesn’t know when to be authoritarian. The problem with our parent’s generation is there are too many people that think they got unlimited experience point and fancy themselves as experts on topic they know little or nothing about, thus, when they doesn’t have the sufficient experience point or require expert knowledge they doesn’t possess, they screw up. A good example, is when George W Bush Junior was the US President, in dealing with Middle Eastern issues, he replaces much experts with a bunch of head nodding yes man, despite he got insufficient knowledge regarding to the region. Cupid remember an interview with former Navy Seals and they said the best military leader isn’t the one that think he got all the answers, but those who would listen to the advice of his men, when necessary. The recent issues associate with the Covert-19 virus, is the first time, most world leaders from our parents’ generation are willing to listen expert advice, as they are willing to admit, they doesn’t have the necessary specialist knowledge in medicine, as a result, the leader of most countries are able to do the best that can be done, under a very bad situation, especially with Taiwan and New Zealand that is doing extremely well.
And over confident people, are also likely to blame others for their own mistake, due to thinking they can’t possibly be at fault. And as we have seen a very large number of leaders, from our parent’s generation, when they screw up and instead of taking responsibility, they genuinely think they did no wrong and start playing the blame game. It is like for say, a person walk into a building and accidentally set it on fire, yet, think it is everybody else’s fault, due to not making sure, everything in the building is inflammable, prior to he/she entering and he/she are in no way, to blame. He/she might even be angry at everybody else, due to thinking they are completely at fault for the fire and grow angry when other people blame him/her for starting the fire and calling them “bullies that won’t take responsibility for their own mistakes.” Or “bullies that blame other people for their own mistakes.” and people that think they are always right, are also more likely to be corrupted, due to they think, they can do no wrong. In my opinion, the current issue of the world health organization, in relationship to the Covert-19, failure, is a very good example of such, where the leadership was easily corrupted under the influence of the Chinese Communist Party and when things start screwing up, as a result, they believe they are in no way responsible, but it is everybody else’s fault, even accusing US President Donald Trump, for politicizing the virus, when the US decided to pull funds out of the WHO, due to how it’s corruption has made it useless and counterproductive in the Covert-19 crisis. Another good example, is the political instability and power struggle within the Australian Federal Government, after the retirement of former Prime Minister John Howard, the last Australian Prime Minister from our grandparent's generation. This problem only end with the impeachment of Prime Minister Tony Abbott and replacing him with Prime Minister Melcomb Turnbull in 2015, yet the mere 5 year instability starting at 2010, with many bad policies, create a series of aftermath that can yet be resolved. If this issue is so bad amount the world leaders and elites of our parent’s generation, it isn’t hard to image, amount the average Joes, this issue is even worse.
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But our parent’s generation, too many of them doesn’t understand that and they think after a certain age, they automatically got unlimited experience points and to be expert in every topic, so they go around screaming “I’m not 40 years for shit!” “I’m not 50 years old for shit!” “I’m not 60 years old for shit!”, despite a lot of time they are “40, 50 or 60 years old for shit”, because they face a problem require a lot more experience point then they got or an area of expertise they don’t have.
Confucius once said that those who are over confident, under estimate the difficulty of situation. While those who are under confident is afraid to do anything. Dr. Phil says those who are over confident, overestimate their ability, while those who are under confident, under estimate their ability. So, it is important to know our strength and weakness and know when to listen to advice and when to be authoritarian. People that are arrogant and over confident only knows when to be authoritarian, but doesn’t know when to take advice. People that are under confident know when to take advice, but doesn’t know when to be authoritarian. The problem with our parent’s generation is there are too many people that think they got unlimited experience point and fancy themselves as experts on topic they know little or nothing about, thus, when they doesn’t have the sufficient experience point or require expert knowledge they doesn’t possess, they screw up. A good example, is when George W Bush Junior was the US President, in dealing with Middle Eastern issues, he replaces much experts with a bunch of head nodding yes man, despite he got insufficient knowledge regarding to the region. Cupid remember an interview with former Navy Seals and they said the best military leader isn’t the one that think he got all the answers, but those who would listen to the advice of his men, when necessary. The recent issues associate with the Covert-19 virus, is the first time, most world leaders from our parents’ generation are willing to listen expert advice, as they are willing to admit, they doesn’t have the necessary specialist knowledge in medicine, as a result, the leader of most countries are able to do the best that can be done, under a very bad situation, especially with Taiwan and New Zealand that is doing extremely well.
And over confident people, are also likely to blame others for their own mistake, due to thinking they can’t possibly be at fault. And as we have seen a very large number of leaders, from our parent’s generation, when they screw up and instead of taking responsibility, they genuinely think they did no wrong and start playing the blame game. It is like for say, a person walk into a building and accidentally set it on fire, yet, think it is everybody else’s fault, due to not making sure, everything in the building is inflammable, prior to he/she entering and he/she are in no way, to blame. He/she might even be angry at everybody else, due to thinking they are completely at fault for the fire and grow angry when other people blame him/her for starting the fire and calling them “bullies that won’t take responsibility for their own mistakes.” Or “bullies that blame other people for their own mistakes.” and people that think they are always right, are also more likely to be corrupted, due to they think, they can do no wrong. In my opinion, the current issue of the world health organization, in relationship to the Covert-19, failure, is a very good example of such, where the leadership was easily corrupted under the influence of the Chinese Communist Party and when things start screwing up, as a result, they believe they are in no way responsible, but it is everybody else’s fault, even accusing US President Donald Trump, for politicizing the virus, when the US decided to pull funds out of the WHO, due to how it’s corruption has made it useless and counterproductive in the Covert-19 crisis. Another good example, is the political instability and power struggle within the Australian Federal Government, after the retirement of former Prime Minister John Howard, the last Australian Prime Minister from our grandparent's generation. This problem only end with the impeachment of Prime Minister Tony Abbott and replacing him with Prime Minister Melcomb Turnbull in 2015, yet the mere 5 year instability starting at 2010, with many bad policies, create a series of aftermath that can yet be resolved. If this issue is so bad amount the world leaders and elites of our parent’s generation, it isn’t hard to image, amount the average Joes, this issue is even worse.
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