Should we listen to people older and more experienced

Should we pay more attention to people who are older and more experienced than we are? being older and more experienced indicates better mastery of handling problems. However, what matters in the advancement of the society is the power of the intellect and vision, not age. If anything, old people are more likely to be conservative, slow to recognize the merit of individual ideas. Finally, they are world in terms of hierarchies instead of individual aptitudes. On the contrary, young people have a major advantage of absorbing resourceful information openly and creating with passion. As a result, it’s not necessary for us teenagers to pay more attention to the elders, but important to be confident in our own ideas. The resistance that older coworkers and superiors showed Maxim Gorky when he was an adolescent serves as a poignant example.
Maxim Gorky, a Russian and Soviet author and political activist, was one of the most brilliant authors of the 20th century. Gorky didn’t live a happy childhood. After an attempt at suicide in December 1887, he travelled on foot across the Russian Empire for five years, changing jobs constantly. It was during this period that Gorky formed an interest in reading and made up his mind to become a writer. He managed to get some books to read in his very limited spare time under rather harsh conditions. This little after-hours hobby was soon discovered by his co-workers, mostly adults much older than he, and inevitably, he was fiercely ridiculed and derided. With indignation and jealous resentment, his co-workers insisted that Gorky was getting too big for his britches—as a poor boy with only two years of schooling, he was presumptuous to think he could become a famous writer. His bosses even burned his books, took away his candles, and beat him for reading, since, according to them, things in books were never realistic and could only made people escape from their daily work. Nevertheless, as a true genius, Gorky had never