After 30 , do we become more open to older people's ideas & experiences?

Question

I feel I am

Answer 1

Yes because the *older* ones are the same age as the person. Also they are more MATURE and have lived life and gained experiences of life's lessons. I do not know one young person that does not have all the answers to everything, unless they are mature in their ways and thinking. They are the ones who the others do not want to have anything to do with because they do not hang around on street corners, party all night, do not go to school, disrespect their Parents, and so on. However these kids, (the mature ones) are the ones that the other ones will be WORKING for one day, but then its too late.

Answer 2

Yes, but to be honest with you they too are still learning so don't expect perfection. Those that are humble will be honest about this as well. Age is a plus when it comes to wisdom of the future but it all depends on how mature that person is. If you run into an older person who deems themselves to have learned it all, claims to be exempt from messing up, or claims to know it all ...run. I don't mean physically but weigh everything out and pray about it. Prayer can take place starting at a young age. It's possible at 30 weighing things out gets a bit easier as well it's part of growing forward in my experience.

Answer 3

Yes indeed, this is the reason why people like the Japanese, revere the elder for the wisdom which they gained through life's experiences.

Answer 4

yeah sometime in our thirties we realize we are now the old foggies or at least we better start thinking we better start looking at things from that point of view. BUT now grandma ain't the grandma she was in the 60's. In the 60's people in their 60's were nothing like now.

Answer 5

Yes I do beleive it....Take parenting for instance....Do you remember when you were a kid and saying this to your parents because they said or did something you didn't like or agree with.

"When I grow up and have my own kids, I am never going to do that."

Guess what..I AM MY PARENTS. (never say never)

I have almost 90% of their rules in my house if not more.

Answer 6

You mean "openness", or "O". The answers you have received are wrong and now I will prove to you WHY this is:

“O decreases with age...Cross cultural research has... demonstrated that A and C rise from puberty onward, while N and O tend to decrease (although the trends slow markedly by the age of 30).”

The Big Five
After years of compiling data from self-report inventories (that is, from questionnaires) and subjecting it to the mathematical process of factor analysis, five major factors of personality showed up in thousands of individuals across cultures. These factors were named according to what they appeared to represent:
1. Openness - imagination, artistic interests, intellectance, creativity, curiosity
2. Conscientiousness - responsibility, orderliness, dependability, self control
3. Extraversion - gregariousness, assertiveness, energy, excitement seeking, cheerfulness
4. Agreeableness - cooperation, altruism, honesty, sympathy, trust
5. Neuroticism - proneness to depression, stress levels, anger, anxiety, negative emotions

Note that the Big Five traits have positive and negative connotations - that is, while all personality traits have been found to be good in some situations (no trait is wholly positive or wholly negative), for the most part some traits are more desirable than others….

1. Discoveries about Openness

-When asked to complete unfinished sentences, low O's give simpler answers. (Compare "Rules are... there to be obeyed" to "Rules are... things that should be flexible to fit the real world.")
-Individuals high on O have a richer fantasy life and have a greater variety of experiences, being interested in a wide variety of occupations, and more likely to shift careers in mid life. High O individuals have broad intellectual interests and generally welcome change.
-Individuals low on O tend to have more traditional views on authority. It is therefore unsurprising that O shows strong correlations with political liberalism.
-Individuals high on O tend to be more succeptible to hypnotism.
-In gradeschool children, O correlates positively with GPA.
-Openness is inversely related to conventional religiosity. When faced with difficulties, those high on O tend to cope with humor, while those low on O tend to cope through faith.
-There is an inverse correlation between O and racial prejudice; that is, those low in O strongly tend to be more ethnocentric
-In therapy, for an individual with high O, it is better to use imagery techniques, while for low O patients it better to use biofeedback.
-O decreases with age.
-High O individuals score better for IQ than their peers; the correlation between O and VB or verbal ability, (as measured by vocabulary, understanding of analogies, and so on,) is near 30%. The correlation between O and g itself is less well established, but also shows up as positive in a number of studies.

Additional Findings

-All over the world, women score higher in A and N than men do. (Women also experience higher rates of depression than men). Men therefore tend to be less charitable towards others, and also less prone to emotional instability and unhappiness.
-Cross cultural research has also demonstrated that A and C rise from puberty onward, while N and O tend to decrease (although the trends slow markedly by the age of 30).
-Certain factors relate to one another. A positive relationship near 30% has been found between A and E, while E and N have a similar relationship near -40%. (The negative correlation indicates that higher E tends to go with lower N rather than the reverse.) This may underlie many of the tendencies for E; for instance Extroverts may be more cheerful and optimistic, and may respond poorly to punishment precisely because they are less N.

Studies have found that not all national groups score the same. Results on cross cultural research indicate that people from America and Europe test higher on E, lower on A, and higher on O than individuals from Asia.

Answer 7

I think that's true. We start to become aware of the arrogance and foolishness of young people who think they know it all.

Answer 8

yes, and people which seemed much older than you, don´t looks so old now and you feel closer to them.