The common thoughts about the older people are that they lack memorizing skill with aging brain. Yet a growing number of studies suggest that this assumption is often wrong. In the new edition of a neurology book, "Progress in Brain Research" suggests that some brains do deteriorate with age yet for most cases, it is only that a gradually widening focus of attention makes it more difficult to latch onto just one fact. Shelly H. Carson, a psychology researcher at Harvard says that this is nothing wrong or bad, but is useful since it may increase the amount of information available to the conscious mind. This can yield big advantages in the real world where it is not always clear what information is important, or will become important.
Dr. Harsher said that a broad attention span may enable older adults to ultimately know more about a situation and indirect messages of what is going on than younger people. Jacqui Smith, a professor of psychology and research professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan also says that since older adults take in more information in a situation and they are able to combine it with their comparatively greater store of general knowledge, they are going to have a nice advantage. This is the process of building wisdom, she said.
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It is really common that people misjudge older people about their memory and ignore them a bit. This research has shown how the older people might be better with their knowledge and attention as well as memory.
They say in few years, companies are going to suffer from lack of workforces of young people. The general age of the society is growing old but only few young ones exist. Companies will be desperately look for young people to hire; however, is it always a good idea to hire young people? Older workers have advantages such as tenure, wisdom and now, a greater span of attention on every situation they are in! As mentioned in the article, the world is chaotic, not predictable of what is important or what would become important. Now it is proven that older people may do better than older people.
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