Man's Most Creative Years: Then and Now

“…In another article (49) this company reported that the trend is for younger men to be promoted to positions of high military rank. Lehman (40) also gave evidence that workers now tend to make their outstanding creative contribution at younger ages than was true a century or more ago.…”

Section: Adjustmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chapter II: Characteristics of Adults Basic to Education

Lorge¹,

Kushner²

1950

Review of Educational Research

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“…It involves the analysis of biographical information showing the ages at which man's best work has been accomplished. Lehman (7,8,9,10,11,12,13) been making a thorough survey of this problem in many areas of human achievement. His method is to take a standard reference book which selects the outstanding contributions in a field, then to list these works and if necessary have them rated for importance by present-day authorities in the subject, and after that ascertain the age of the man who made each contribution.…”

Section: Age Differences In Achievementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Age differences.

Tyler¹

1947

The Psychology of Human Differences.

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The topic of differences between the generations is one of perennial interest in a world where people of all ages must somehow live and work together. High-school boys and girls take note of the ways their parents think and act and then draw their own conclusions. Middle-aged adults look at adolescents in puzzled wonder. Often they come out with sweeping and not complimentary generalizations about young people. Toward the aged most middle-aged persons show either protectiveness or impatience, and both of these attitudes imply a tacit assumption that old people are less able than they once were. If required to formulate his ideas as to how the generations differ, the man on the street would be likely to say something like this:"Everybody knows that young people are quicker than older ones-faster in their movements, quicker to learn new things. They're a lot more adventurous too, always wanting to try something new to get a new thrill. They are likely to be more radical, more hot-headed, less steady, than older people are. Men in their forties are slower, though their judgment is better. You don't find so many radicals among them, and they are a lot more settled in their attitudes. Old people are a little feeble, of course, though some of them manage to keep on working. They can't learn anything new very well, and they are often kind of tiresome because they insist on telling the same stories over and over, living in the past."This is more or less the prevailing attitude, as we find it in ourselves and our friends. Unlike various other cultures such as the Chinese, we have quite consistently emphasized youth as the golden age of life. Until recently America has been predominantly a nation of young men and women. The sort of 165

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Man's Most Creative Years: Then and Now

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