Not long ago, I met a very nice lady who explained to me that unless someone had children and grandchildren, they didn’t really know how to run an organization or deal with people properly, and therefore probably shouldn’t be leading a business. group. Plus, she explained in so many words that being such a grandma gave her the true perspective needed to lead and anything else just wouldn’t work, in her opinion. Okay, so let’s talk because I have another way of looking at all of this, and she would say that “while her concept has some merit, it shouldn’t be any kind of hard and fast rule, it’s too stereotypical for my blood.”
Surely, I think we can all agree that being a grandparent and going through this set of experiences that it takes to raise a family, and then seeing the family you raised raise the next generation gives you a completely different perspective on everything. It is as if he is watching a repeat of history, while remembering his own past. There needs to be a little humility and a common understanding to give people a little more space and not be so harsh in their judgments. Yes, we all agree with that.
However, just because a person was unable to control their hormones at some point in their life and was able to reproduce and create an offspring, and that offspring was able to reproduce once again, it does not mean that Grandpa did anything special. There are 7 billion people on the planet, and many of them, most of them will be in the same situation. Therefore, being a grandparent is not necessarily as special as it might seem. This is not to say that we should not respect our elders, obviously we should, they came before us, they have lived their lives and they have some wisdom to go on.
However, automatically saying that all grandparents are great and perhaps wiser than many young people is not necessarily the case. There is a huge difference in IQ levels in our society, and even those with an IQ below 80 can reproduce and become grandparents very easily. A college student who just graduated and has an IQ of 130 would perhaps make better decisions even without living those life experiences than a grandparent with a low IQ produces more offspring with low IQs. Automatically saying that grandparents are better suited to lead is the most nonsense I’ve ever heard.
If all things were equal, and you had a grandfather who was in good health, had lots of energy, and had a high IQ level, surely we should all listen to them, but I’m not so sure that just getting older and having offspring produced makes anyone is so cool, and I base my findings on our general population in society and all the chumps that permeate our civilization. Please consider all this and think about it.