As it appears to me, many individuals prefer to get advice from their friends of their own age. They believe that it is much better to share ideas with the peers of their own age. However, I believe that gaining advice from older counterparts can provide you with many merits because older friends are mature enough to help you appropriately. Apart from that, one should not ignore the fact that there might be some other reasons illustrating that getting advice from older people is much better for the younger ones. To begin with, in my opinion, having older friends are necessary for young people because adults are mature and experienced enough to reveal right directions for adolescents in order to attain success. Moreover, they possess sufficient knowledge to give their friends the valuable advice, leading to paving the way for success. For example, if you want to choose a suitable field of study, it is much better to exploit your older friends’ experience. They can aim you to narrow down possible choices regarding your knowledge level; you, as a result, would be able to decide which of the options are more appropriate for you. Secondly, it is noteworthy to state that older friends possess enough knowledge in their field of study, and their decisions are realistic. For example, if you wish to choose a job, older friends will be able to aim you better because they evaluate the pros and cons of any job regarding your characteristics; indeed, an appreciable age gap can be helpful to you since older counterparts would be able to appraise all aspects of a job altogether. They are eminently familiar with different facets of a job, affecting your personal life; in other words, there might be some crucial, decisive parameters for choosing a job such as salary, ambition to acquire skills in the job, knowledge level requirements, the company reputation, to name a few. Last but not least, I believe that older friends can understand you better when you are in trouble. Indeed, when you encounter a problem in your personal life, they would be able to mitigate the issue by proposing some advice and possible solutions. For example, I had a problem to develop a large project, and I had to resolve it before a specified deadline; meanwhile, I did not have any idea to solve the problem. I attempted to ask one of my old friends to give advice for that problem, and my friend suggested me focus all details of the project after getting some rest. Interestingly, I could find a solution to the issue by pursuing the advice. In a nutshell, by taking aforementioned reasons into account, I believe that obtaining advice from older friends brings more benefits to you than getting advice from friends of your own age. There are some cogent reasons, indicating that the claim is correct. First, adults are mature and experienced enough to help you find the right way of achieving success. Second, adults are adept enough at their field of study compared with younger ones; therefore, they would be able to explain how you can attain success. Besides that, they are able to assess and to consider all aspects of decisive matters in your life, among which you have to decide. Last, when you face a conundrum in your personal life, you can ask them in order to help you. Because they have more experience than you, they would be able to resolve the problem by proposing an appropriate, rational remedy.
I disagree. Older people tend to have old fashioned outdated ideas. Worse than that parents can blind the views of a child by only giving it access to only one world view. If we would solely listen to the older people, the human race would never make any progress. The new generation would always copy the ideas of the older generation and things would stay the same.
Your point of view is valid for some older individuals, but not all. As a 65-year-old, I can tell you that it is possible to be old and stupid! Of course, one hopes to gain wisdom and experience with the years, and in some ways, particular to me, I have done so. I have also had the pleasure of knowing many intelligent, self-aware, thoughtful young people. So I think it is more important to consider the qualities of the individual you are talking to rather than their age, and then use your own good sense to evaluate their advice. Good luck!
Well if you want to get out of a problem in the best way possible, go for an older person. They probably lived it already, made the wrong choice, they regret it, and they can tell you which option you will probably consider the best years after deciding.
However if you want empathy and someone that can understand you, same age is necessary as they might have the exact same problem and they are currently feeling what you are feeling too.
I think not all the times one should follow an elder's advice, otherwise risks would not occur, and innovation would be dead, but hell their advice is always a good thing to hear.
Regards!
