[[The Age Advantage ]]
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And here’s what I realized:
This advantage isn’t available to 25-year-olds, no matter how smart or motivated they are. It requires something they simply don’t have yet: the raw material of diverse experience.
But having that raw material isn’t enough. You need to know how to transform it into something powerful.
Most experienced professionals never figure this out.
They carry their knowledge like a heavy backpack – lots of valuable stuff, but impossible to find what you need when you need it.
They feel overwhelmed by everything they know, instead of empowered by it.
But when you discover how to activate this hidden advantage…
Everything changes.
You stop feeling like you’re falling behind and start feeling like you’re pulling ahead.
You stop worrying about being replaced and start becoming irreplaceable.
You stop seeing your age as a liability and start leveraging it as your greatest asset.
The secret isn’t just about organizing your knowledge.
It’s about evolving your decades of scattered experience into a living, breathing system that thinks with you. A system that gets smarter every day, not because you’re learning more, but because you’re connecting more.
And when you combine this with the right AI tools – not as a replacement for your thinking, but as an amplifier of your unique perspective – something remarkable happens.
You become the person everyone wants on their team.
Not despite your age, but because of what your age has uniquely equipped you to do.
This is what I call the “Age Advantage.”
Think about it: What’s one challenge you’ve solved multiple times that younger colleagues still struggle with?
That’s your raw material right there.
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Posted on LINKEDIN on 2025-07-30_Wed
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- My running list of 12 favorite problems
- Age Advantage Evidence Search - deep research on that topic
- [[Newsletter 30 - The Hidden Advantage of the Elderly in the Age of AI]]