Why are 'older' people more boring?
What makes them the same?
Well, ultimately, they 'shut up'.
They shut up their ideas, mouths, take the safest route and shut up.
There may be reason to shut up. You don't want to be sacked or cause something to be uncovered at work which causes something to be time consuming.
Of course this has a down side. Nobody put the idea forward, however many faults it had which could have been ironed out. So whatever it was never got suggested.
I do a part time job (well until mid May when I will retire). In this job there are people who work 'above' me. They have seniors, who have seniors who have seniors who have board members above them.
Over my years in the job I have had some good and less good ideas. One of these was a stoke of genius which the company took on. However my boss told me never to send any ideas in ever to the ideas email address as it might make her and her boss (the upper of these two was let go fairly recently) looks like they were not doing their jobs- I guess this includes thinking.
Again recently I had an idea. It could work at any senior/ secondary/ college/ university about building an electric car conversion. I contacted one school who didn't reply and then more recently the very well funded 'Prior Park College' where I know a member of staff there. Every couple of weeks I am apologised to for the school not getting back to me. I will be interested to see if they just take the idea on. The value of the project to the schools is the positive publicity they can throw out to the news papers. I don't know if the reader is aware, but there is some sort of financial/advertising measurement that you can give to newspaper coverage. So in this case, Prior Park when they finish the car project might invite the paper round to talk about 'The Future of travel' and what the students had done. It is very positive and more fun than most of the other activities the school (and other schools) offer. Prospective parents will be impressed.
When is the moment that I should become more protective about these ideas? Would that actually be helpful if I controlled the ideas instead of suggesting them?
I hope I don't shut up for some time. I am really bored by the conformity of people in all sorts of areas- work, music, money etc.
