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Does age equate to experience?
Topic Started: Jun 21 2016, 12:33 AM (349 Views)
Helvius Pertinax Augustus
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What will you do when you get old?

So in your opinion does age equate to experience?

In my opinion, it does not. Age equates to the opportunity for experience, but if you don't take those opportunities given to you, you have no experience in a certain field. Those who are older suddenly claim to be more experienced than they really are, simply because of age and perceived life experiences that do not relate to the current situation.

This happens a lot in shooting sports for me. I'm very good at shooting guns. I first learned to shoot at 10 years old from my grandfather. At 14 I decided to start shooting for fun with my father, and now I shoot semi-competitively in IDPA leagues and USPSA 3 Gun challenges. I'm not trying to get famous or win mega bucks, but rather for shooting experience and fun. Minimum I hit the shooting range 2 times a week spending an hour and a half to two hours there practicing with all manner of firearms.

I like to take friends, family and coworkers to the shooting range for fun, and teach them how to shoot on different platforms. A few people I've tried to teach how to properly shoot are older than myself by quite a bit, and so they try to tell me I'm wrong because I'm just a kid. I've got 11 years shooting experience at the wee age of 21 yet somehow all of that becomes irrelevant when teaching someone older than myself to shoot.

I think it all boils down to ego more than anything.

So, does age equate to experience in your opinion?
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I think it all depends on the subject really. Take raising a newborn baby. I don't care what kind of experience you have at babysitting or whatever, no one's suddenly going be a master at raising their first newborn. The reason is when babysitting, you're only watching someone else's kid for a few hours while you constantly have to watch your own, getting up almost every hour at night just to make sure its okay. This is why a lot of new parents usually go to their own parents for advice since they have years of knowledge raising them. Now come your second child, you've basically eased up a bit and have some prior knowledge to raising a newborn baby.
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I agree that the subject is important. There are somethings that you can start to gain experience on at a young age like shooting and other things such as teaching at the college/university level for example that you can't do until you're much older.
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No. Not always. There are many people my age on this forum or older that are far more immature than I am. It all depends on how you were raised, really, and it also depends on the situation at hand. I've been here for over eleven years now and I've met thousands of people. I joined when I was barely eleven years old myself. I've seen people more immature than me yet much older, and people much younger than me that were more mature. Though, as I've gotten older, it's usually the former and not the latter, but, you get the point. :p
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I think you hit the nail on the head: age doesn't equate experience, it just means you have more of an opportunity to be experienced. If you're 40, but you've only played a sport for a year, it's that 1 year that's the important part. The other 39 are meaningless if you haven't had any experience of doing that sport during them (although I guess you could argue that some experience is transferable to other things, but it still doesn't equate to pure experience. Even with parenting, a first-time parent with no younger siblings or relatives will have the same parenting experience whether they're 20, 30, 40 etc: none.

It's the same thing with 'respect your elders'. Respect is earned and experience is gained.
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It doesn't equate with age.
It equates with how long you've been doing it.
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It should be obvious that it doesn't equate to experience. You getting older doesn't make you better at s*** lmao
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What will you do when you get old?

It should be, but there are people out there who don't think so for the sake of their egos.
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