Online searches for a list of life lessons yield a rich variety of people who seem eager to share what they have learned from experience. Many of the lessons are from people who have enjoyed success of some sort. Others may be amusing, helpful or insightful. Most often they fall into a field known as 'Life Skills'.
Concepts that are receiving attention in the early stages of the twenty-first century are 'positive psychology' and ;life skills. These terms that are now widely used seem to have emerged in the context of mass communication and technology that allows for such powerful communication techniques that the intellectual frameworks of the world are being altered.
Most people who are now beyond fifty experienced their most important lessons in times when the forces now driving development were completely unknown, Feminism, the dropping of the Atomic Bomb and the Cold War formed the context of their early learning. Now such issues are only as relevant as other historical events. Yet no person can easily forget the lessons that he learned before the age of six.
For many older people the lessons that they learned in infancy did not include the imperative to 'be positive about everything'. Chicken soup was known as a food that had antibiotic qualities but it was not a metaphor for an attitude. War and despair was everywhere and preachers preached of sin.
People born during the baby boom imbibed from their parents many war soaked experiences even though the Second World War had been replaced by lesser wars or threats of war. The looming threat of an atomic holocaust never came to anything. Instead new clouds of over population, globalization and climate change built up on the horizon.
A grandparent in 2012, faced with a new relationship forming with a grandchild who is only four years old needs to urgently review and revise his personal experiences. Many of them apparently taught him things that are taboo in terms of his grandchild's early education and the received wisdom of the Internet from which the child's parents receive their information about parenting. The wisdom of experience is not accepted uncritically as it might have been in earlier eras.
The wisdom of age was once revered because it was unique and hard earned. This is no longer the case in the Information Age. Vast treasures of information are available much of it not only earned from experience but also scientifically verified. This is beneficial. For centuries human beings have passed on to succeeding generations their erroneous beliefs, foolish customs and damaging prejudices. The process has now been streamlined with false knowledge being filtered by the Internet. Those that do not pass scrutiny because they are negative can be eliminated.
As time turns slowly into the twenty-first century it is uncertain what challenges await. There may be even greater challenges than those caused by upstart dictators and mad monarchs in the past. However it seems that the rising generation will be better equipped than its grandparents generation was, with its inadequate and often wrong list of life lessons.
Concepts that are receiving attention in the early stages of the twenty-first century are 'positive psychology' and ;life skills. These terms that are now widely used seem to have emerged in the context of mass communication and technology that allows for such powerful communication techniques that the intellectual frameworks of the world are being altered.
Most people who are now beyond fifty experienced their most important lessons in times when the forces now driving development were completely unknown, Feminism, the dropping of the Atomic Bomb and the Cold War formed the context of their early learning. Now such issues are only as relevant as other historical events. Yet no person can easily forget the lessons that he learned before the age of six.
For many older people the lessons that they learned in infancy did not include the imperative to 'be positive about everything'. Chicken soup was known as a food that had antibiotic qualities but it was not a metaphor for an attitude. War and despair was everywhere and preachers preached of sin.
People born during the baby boom imbibed from their parents many war soaked experiences even though the Second World War had been replaced by lesser wars or threats of war. The looming threat of an atomic holocaust never came to anything. Instead new clouds of over population, globalization and climate change built up on the horizon.
A grandparent in 2012, faced with a new relationship forming with a grandchild who is only four years old needs to urgently review and revise his personal experiences. Many of them apparently taught him things that are taboo in terms of his grandchild's early education and the received wisdom of the Internet from which the child's parents receive their information about parenting. The wisdom of experience is not accepted uncritically as it might have been in earlier eras.
The wisdom of age was once revered because it was unique and hard earned. This is no longer the case in the Information Age. Vast treasures of information are available much of it not only earned from experience but also scientifically verified. This is beneficial. For centuries human beings have passed on to succeeding generations their erroneous beliefs, foolish customs and damaging prejudices. The process has now been streamlined with false knowledge being filtered by the Internet. Those that do not pass scrutiny because they are negative can be eliminated.
As time turns slowly into the twenty-first century it is uncertain what challenges await. There may be even greater challenges than those caused by upstart dictators and mad monarchs in the past. However it seems that the rising generation will be better equipped than its grandparents generation was, with its inadequate and often wrong list of life lessons.
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