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They also don't know better.

It's a lot of work to stay open minded, flexible, free, and not know better.

Still, investing in their development can yield the kinds of people that an organization may be after.

>>j45+(OP)
It's the best company I've ever worked at so far. The fact that mostly everyone was in their 20s to early 30s meant we had an awesome cohesive culture.

Note I said mostly. Of course there were older people, but they were in their 40s and early 50s. They were few and far between, and they were the "adults" in the room when needed. It worked really well.

>>charli+Io1
Age doesn’t mean anything.

It’s just mindset and maintaining it.

In our 20s we might not know better, follow others and end up letting the current take us where it may.

Sometimes when I meet an 18 year old I wonder how they are having experiences where they are growing or the rate of growing is slowing much quicker than someone who was on the early internet.

If you can stay young and build discipline in all ages it works as you are saying.

It’s less about being the adult in the room as much as supporting people to grow and become those people they are seeking.

>>j45+N94
Sure, at an individual level age might not matter much. But taken in aggregate, age means a lot in the context of company culture building. Take any average 24 year old and see how much they have in common with a 34 year old or 40 year old. Let's not pretend life doesn't change over time and hand wave it with a nice platitude.