The first thing that came into my mind was that 30 is also the age, around which people in industrial countries typically start having children. Having a family often changes one's priorities from striving for personal success into supporting your family, so it can very well contribute to the decrease in productivity. Also, when you consider the people who achieved success later in life, it is often at an age when their children would be adults, so they are free to fully focus on their own passions again.
good point, he should have compared the scientist with/without spending time with their children to see if it has an impact.( i specifically said spending time with your children vs having children because i remember seeing how little time the very succesful and talented music composer philip glass devotes to his family and this is obviously correleated to him being very productive. ) also in the past, people who did contribute to knowledge did not raise their own children, this task was left to servants/slaves.
*Many great men succeeded well after 35* It can take time to find something that really resonates with you, be patient. Success is a feeling of contentment and fulfilment.
0:09 Speaker: Albert-László Barabási 1:05 He was lucky Age 28 - Networks, Scale Free Networks, Network Science 1:38 Age 40- Network Medicine, Medicine Division 2:08 Age 45- The Science of Success: Understanding Success by The Networks we are part of 3:09 Success Requires Performance (What you do) + That the community acknowledges and +That the community rewards 4:20 Here's Usain Bolt, fastest man on the track 5:04 Performance is bounded - Varies in narrow ranges, little deviation 5:35 Measuring Success. Success is Unbounded. Success is given by the market, by society, by community ex. Writing Books 6:28 What are the sales? Dan Brown's _The 7:51 When should success appear? - 20's , 30's, late 40's Creativity = Youth (?) 8:55 Observational bias: Geniuses, Normal Scientists 9:16 Barabási's career 10:30 Career Success Graphic 12:00 Problems with Controls - The older they get, the more likely scientists stop trying 14:08 Entrepreneurship - Age 30's get the money
I clicked to watch this video because of the title and that was all I was interested in. When he started talking about network science I said, I learned networks for one class. Finally science that I can understand. Then I saw his name and I realised, he is the author that basically all our study materials was based on! HE IS THE GUY!
I'm 40 will be 41 in November .. Music is my life .. At 19 I was the lead singer of a band and the band did big things very quickly around 21 I was travelling playing music around the U.S. ( promoters and leaches) when I turned 30 I thought it was over the deals tapered off and my savings dwindled that band is no longer , but at 40 going back to my roots with bass and drums I've writen my best works yet. I have a day job and my success is being recognized at a bar and drinking for free!
@@stevenm8970 Not really my music has grown significant and as a "successful" welder/ steal worker when I travel from L.A. to N.Y. and still recieve praise and recognition (free drinks) I feel my music was/is a success.
I am 62 so this talk was inspirational to me. The only critique I have with it is that it seems like Albert-László Barabási mostly defines success in terms of money. Money is incredibly important. You need enough of it to achieve "success", however that number is likely much lower than most people think. To me, success is defined by my happiness. And to that end finding and doing the things that make me happy in my life is key and those things don't revolve around finding ways to get more money.
@@SL-jn8cz In my younger years I would have agreed with you on this. As I've aged my view has changed. I don't care what people think about me. I only care about what I think about myself and I know I'm a good person. If someone takes issue with my behavior it's usually because of a deficiency they possess. Needing recognition from others to feel "successful" lets them have influence over your actions. You end up being a person who is not free and a weird concoction of behaviors that you think your social group will admire the most. What kind of life is this?
A simple message born out of a series of data and research. Great. That gives scientific support to those videos who simply tell you that you can succeed at any age.
The harder I work the harder I work. Other people benefit but not me. Been working 100+ hours a week for twenty five years. Making just enough for insurance and groceries. Sounds like you actually got lucky. Some of us will work 100 hours a week until we are in the grave.
@@MrTepik I think he was talking about regular people, not with disability... But you got that economic factor right. surrounding milieu plays a huge role too
Maybe it is in first but when you think about it’s something else. When you feel fear and procrastination, chances are high you try to do something you dont have passion for. Mostly because your ego is telling you, you should do this and that. Real success comes from passion. Just look at the REALLY (true) successful people. They have passion. The dont had any kind of much fear or had to motivate themselves (which leads to procrastination). There are a lot of scammers and liars who want to sell you their dream made out of fear, greed and egoism.
Nem hittem hogy valaha làtok egy magyar előadót ezen a csatornàn. Ràadàsul egy nagyon modernkori ès alulèrtèkelt tèmàval. We live way longer than our previous "geniuses". We need to start a shift in society from thinking that we die at age 60. Imagine how much you did in just your first 20 years of your life. Do you really think that when you are at 60 and have about 20+ years still to go, you should just give up? No! Your children are out, you have time. Be an entrepreneur, learn, nothing stops you. Only you.
@@ZennExile but the rich people from my personal experience try to be the best they can be and keep productivity high more than most poor people I've met so idk what that even means
@@rawstarmusic guess that depends on how one defines success. I'm successful but just not as successful as i could/want to be... And if money is how one defines success(which would be erroneous in my opinion) then most people don't know anything about it or how to build it and therefore no matter how hard they try they'll fail
@@ZennExile you know nothing of me or my perspective but i must remind myself your just a random on the internet and to you i am the same. We know nothing about each other perspectives. We only see a small narrow part of each others "perspective" not representative of reality. I hope you have a great life either way 💪☺ Side note: you probably know this, but if you get a good mulitple random sample sizes, you need not get the whole population, because the T-distribution (used when you don't have the necessary population statistics) will be very close to the Z- distribution (used when you do have the prerequisite stats) with some quantifiable margin of error. Have a great day or night(depending on where you are)
@@Je.rone_ You can measure success against your ambition whatever that is. Many can't be economically successful because it takes talent and there is a lot of competition in that field. One has to be smart ot know ones abilities.
Thanks for saving me the time from watching it lmao. There is a huge correlation between age and success and to ignore it would be ignorant. I have 3 years managing experience yet struggling to find a new job because I’m in mid 20’s, every employer thinks I’m too young and inexperienced (despite meeting application requirements of 1-3 years preferred lol). Also your career grows with your age and experience = higher success. Your network also grows with your age as you meet new people and build it. So yea thanks for saving me the time from watching a load of horse crap. Ted has gone really liberal lately :/
@@carsonhunt4642 That person guess only half-correct. An entrepreneur is twice as likely to succeed in starting a company in the 50s than in the 30s. However, in science, each research paper has exactly the same chance of hitting the jackpot.
@@AlexSage The data that supports Einstein is overwhelming and all songs are made of 20+ people Steve Wonder and Paul McCartney are missing something, ideas are gone. Trust me and Einstein. You can be smart still but you have no unique ideas that actually fly.
@@rawstarmusic what do you mean ideas actually fly? you mean successful? did you know that Einstein was genius in only few branches of science and that doesn't make him a genius in everything. Einstein wasn't even a good student, if you know his biography... The reason why he was genius in some branches of science was because he thought about one problem for many years (not minutes), and that's what gave him a genius status, not because he was astute...
@@AlexSage I think that you have never solved a problem for which there has never been an answer. You wouldn't even know when you were right. Check again he wasn't a bad student. He later was forced to use math at a high level. Maybe you can give an example of one who is a genius on many things? He worked on some problems. He didn't work on other problems. That is fairly simple to understand. He just didn't work on medicine for example. Maybe we smell jealousy in your arguments
A hopeful talk in an age that is age-bound in its construct. What age provides (often and not always) is experience. Experience, in turn, leads to better risk assessment, forecasting and realism. This of course links with a better understanding of how things actually work, even where "disruption" is seen as key. What are you disrupting and what might the consequences be? How would your "disruption" make things better? That requires a degree of maturity, not necessarily age-bound, but it might help!
"Seek knowledge from cradle to grave." "the ultimate aim of knowledge is finding meaning not success." "knowledge is not power; it is a light that guides." "seeker is not always finder." "Wisdom begins with losing all your fears." "A scholar who speaks a lot makes many mistakes." "Working without aim steals your time." "Time is only valuable if you find it short." "When you have no idea what to say, keep silent." "look at the face of the word not face of speaker." "Knowledge makes man silent. "Poverty is hunger, knowledge is a need; one can be quenched one cannot" Ali ibn Talib
Only depending on where you live and if you have any disabilities. Everyone has the potential to be successful. Worrying about being successful is moving backwards. Just work very hard and be enthusiastic doing whatever you do or what to do.
Albert Einstein was a late bloomer. Didn’t he work as a clerk at a patent office? His wife was incredibly intelligent and quite good in mathematics. It is quite possible that she helped him with calculations and then he blossomed as a result of her and didn’t he abandon her after he became “successful” ? 🤧 💔 I’m glad this video breaks the stereotypes.
success comes after 10 years of practice , that's the truth! someone who starts at 20, he or she gets it at 30. someone starting at 30 achieves at 40. It's about having a chief aim in life!
The so called 10 years of practice rule only applies to certain repetitive hand eye coordination physical skills. Like playing the piano. Or laying bricks. But you can become an expert in many subjects, skills and areas of life in a relatively short time if you are willing to focus your attention on it.
Very nice TED-talk! Also if you close your eyes during the talk and listen carefully it's as if some words are from the mouth of mr Bean. Especially when the speaker lowers his voice to point something out.
the interesting question is indeed "why do we stop trying as we get old ?", maybe this has to do with a growing philosophical hability coming from a growing awareness of death, as ricardo semler puts it : we stop asking "what will i be remembered for ?" but "why should i be remembered at all ?"
@@florisr9 It's a government conspiracy, Kentucky was unsatisfied with the FBI having their spy birds, so they wanted spy chickens. But it didn't work out so well cause people kept eating the chickens along with the spy equipment, that's what mercury and lead posioning is from. They covered it up and found it too costly to keep hiring chickens, so they got fired.
12:50 He's referring to the age old 'Numbers Game' tactic. I'm a writer(non-published) and watch all kinds of tutorials and tip videos. From what I've gathered that's what makes all of the rock star writers successful like King,Rice,Tolkien or even Spielberg. They are household names because of Content Volume. Many of them have said that sitting down and writing,actually doing the work is all that matters. They've learned that worrying about if it will be a hit or not doesn't matter. If it is or if it isn't you just write that next one. Particularly for book authors the more books you have available the better. King has well over 50 available for sale which each book represents a potential reoccurring income!
That gives me chances, I'm 26, tried a lot of areas, from engineering, design, hotel management to international relations, got my degree in Chinese. But still can't figure out the best area for me. Kind of confused with the direction I wanna go to
@@ZennExile Luck is also a big, big factor = being in the right place at the right time. But if one isn't a success, one always has to ask oneself, "Did I give my very best?" If the answer is "no", than one can't complain.
You're an individual. Theres a lot psychology and anecdotes out there about life but you get to decide what happens. You aren't bound by anyone else's standards. Your life is so unique and so are your circumstances so don't let anyone tell you what you can and cannot do - they're not you!
Very good and inspiring Ted Talk! But more fascinating for me are all these comments below - where are you from, people?! Is there any country inhabited by so intelligent humans only? I want to move there 😁 I'ts a great pleasure to read them all, even if English is not my strenght. Seriously, I'm impressed. Best regards ☺️👍
Wait, so if I understand correctly, one of his conclusions is that as age increases(to a point), the likelihood of your business exit being successful also increases. But couldn’t that just be an effect of how long one runs a business for? If you start a business at 28 and exit at 30, you are probably exiting because the business wasn’t working out, or perhaps were impatient. The older you get, the longer potential duration one could’ve been running a business for. Sure there’ll still be 50 year olds who tank a business after 2 years, but there are also others who could’ve run a business for ~ 20ish+ years. Unless a 30-year-old started a business at 10, they aren’t old enough to have been running a singular business for very long.
I wonder if the reason that most people after the age if 35 don't seek that level of fame and success is because they have other priorities like starting a family as people in the comments have said or is it really because people around them are telling them that they're too old?
All these objections ! He doesn't talk about the meaning of life or the good life. Just about the succes defined - in this case - as the recognition of performance by society.
Hi Will, congratulations! 👍 Don't take me wrong, but how many not so succeded businesses did you start before? I am really wonder how big part of success is an experience?
Hello Anka, I worked in outside sales in my 30s, 40s, and 50s and made good money but when I started my internet business at age 60 I taped into a national and international market. For at least 2 months, we made a net of $20,000 in one month. I would call that a success.
One of the problem I have is that success is defined by our society, why is the faster runner more successfully than the other and the same can be said about having more money therefore more successful. I disagree with that. Success is the way you feel about anything yourself, not other. By I, achieving nothing, YOU would or the world consider me not successfully but I consider myself very successfully so who is right, YOU, the WORLD or I!
@@rivas97 My point being that, success should be defined by you without input from other. Somebody in the slum of India who can feed his family would due to his circumstances be more successful than what we in the West find success.
Giving a little hope for those of us up in age, thats still spinning on the hamster wheel and feeling tired. Take a break then get back to work...life aint over...yet.
Very interesting. I guess that younger people would have more energy for papers and things. I know that I.Q. decreases with age, so this was actually very surprising
But so called I.Q. has nothing to do with success, creativity, how smart you are or even if you are a genius. I.Q. is only one form of measurement and it only measures I.Q.
Carol Mosher False. I.Q. has a strong correlation with openness (about .8) which is a strong predictor of creativity. And yes I.Q. can be used to determine genius because technically speaking someone is a genius if their I.Q. is around 145
@@whalingwithishmael7751 Since creativity, success and genius are all subjective terms hardcore stats mean nothing. The only thing I.Q. can measure is math or other numerical ability of people that have studied and practiced that exact math or numeric task. And even if you are a genius at math it does not make you smart at everything.
Just reinforces the achievement fallacy, that we are defined by our success. The reason people stop putting in so much effort as they get older is because they realize that achievement is fleeting and will not lead to long term fulfillment. Few if any on their deathbed wishes they had gotten that Nobel prize (or whatever award/recognition). See the top 5 regrets of the dying.
What is even success at all the first place? Who decides what success is and by which terms I should follow / believe they are right to decide for me / everyone lol/ For me everyone is successful already. Have a good one.
Aren't creativity and productivity the same in some ways? I don't know if in the graph/chart showing late age entrepreneurs having successful exits, consider the 'age' of forming the company or having a successful exit? Because if it's the age when they are doing successful exit, then it could be the bias that people are forming good/successful companies when they are young, and it's just that by the time their effort yields they have aged?
Maybe, but I feel like the graph is biased in an other way. Had it been something like start up ideas that are merely conceived in one axis and success in the other axis then we would see the same trend. Older people are wiser to start a company when they know the disadvantage their age has. Young people on the other hand are naive and that affects them in the opposite way. If you had a disadvantage in a competition with a high fee to enter, then you are surely better than the average if you are entering it. Mind that your estimations of how good you are should be better the more disadvantaged you are.
Albert Einstein was asked by a reporter how he feels to be the smartest person in the world and he replied saying he wouldn't know you have to ask Nikola Tesla.
Dude... when you publish a good paper 20 years ago and see the citations now, understand that people cited in 20 years so now you're reading your achievements...
I believe his last slide and conclusion is misguided. I feel like if you are 60 you might as well have a really good idea/start up to present if you are going to do it at all. Let's say you have a wrestling competition in which there is a sizeable drop off the older you get in performance and this competition also has a harsh punishment for losing (maybe you pay a high fee to enter). Wouldn't the oldest group in that competition be way above average in success (within some limitation of course). They pay the fee against the disadvantage and at the same time they don't have the nativity of youth, so the decision is calculated and thus higher chance of success. Looking at football players, so many new players enter the stage every year, the oldest are amongst the best. They ve stayed despite the odds so they must be better than the average new comer that might be outed the next season.
You can hold a position that you've already got as an older but you have no unique ideas, making it from nothing into something. You can only cling on to your position
The first thing that came into my mind was that 30 is also the age, around which people in industrial countries typically start having children. Having a family often changes one's priorities from striving for personal success into supporting your family, so it can very well contribute to the decrease in productivity. Also, when you consider the people who achieved success later in life, it is often at an age when their children would be adults, so they are free to fully focus on their own passions again.
good point, he should have compared the scientist with/without spending time with their children to see if it has an impact.( i specifically said spending time with your children vs having children because i remember seeing how little time the very succesful and talented music composer philip glass devotes to his family and this is obviously correleated to him being very productive. ) also in the past, people who did contribute to knowledge did not raise their own children, this task was left to servants/slaves.
Great point. I wonder if the goal in life is to be more productive. It is a road full of nails.
*Many great men succeeded well after 35*
It can take time to find something that really resonates with you, be patient.
Success is a feeling of contentment and fulfilment.
Im 31 and just barely now discovered my road to success. In my 20s i was completely lost
@@RafaelW8 You are not alone brother. I ditched a cubicle to find myself (purpose) and couldn't be happier.
Here is to life!
Just keep swimming, just keep swimming
People, not just men...
@@hapacooks agree
0:09 Speaker: Albert-László Barabási
1:05 He was lucky
Age 28 - Networks, Scale Free Networks, Network Science
1:38 Age 40- Network Medicine, Medicine Division
2:08 Age 45- The Science of Success: Understanding Success by The Networks we are part of
3:09 Success Requires Performance (What you do)
+ That the community acknowledges and
+That the community rewards
4:20 Here's Usain Bolt, fastest man on the track
5:04 Performance is bounded
- Varies in narrow ranges, little deviation
5:35 Measuring Success. Success is Unbounded. Success is given by the market, by society, by community
ex. Writing Books
6:28 What are the sales?
Dan Brown's _The
7:51 When should success appear?
- 20's , 30's, late 40's
Creativity = Youth (?)
8:55 Observational bias: Geniuses, Normal Scientists
9:16 Barabási's career
10:30 Career Success Graphic
12:00 Problems with Controls
- The older they get, the more likely scientists stop trying
14:08 Entrepreneurship
- Age 30's get the money
I think this is the most motivating TED talk I've ever watched. I'm gonna go out and take more calculated risks now, one of them should be golden.
I clicked to watch this video because of the title and that was all I was interested in. When he started talking about network science I said, I learned networks for one class. Finally science that I can understand. Then I saw his name and I realised, he is the author that basically all our study materials was based on! HE IS THE GUY!
Although I failed that class...
With age comes wisdom. It’s an old saying but it is so very true in all areas of life.
Wisdom is not ideas and that is what you need. Without ideas you can sit and meditate.
so Trump is wise?
Theodoяe Kяap who said anything about Trump?
rawstarmusic ok? Your very thick.
But sometimes age comes alone.
I'm 40 will be 41 in November .. Music is my life .. At 19 I was the lead singer of a band and the band did big things very quickly around 21 I was travelling playing music around the U.S. ( promoters and leaches) when I turned 30 I thought it was over the deals tapered off and my savings dwindled that band is no longer , but at 40 going back to my roots with bass and drums I've writen my best works yet. I have a day job and my success is being recognized at a bar and drinking for free!
Sad
@@stevenm8970
Not really my music has grown significant and as a "successful" welder/ steal worker when I travel from L.A. to N.Y. and still recieve praise and recognition (free drinks) I feel my music was/is a success.
@@ryanagee5540 Congratulation on your welding craft and your art!
@@sonjak8265
Thank you so much for that !
I am 62 so this talk was inspirational to me. The only critique I have with it is that it seems like Albert-László Barabási mostly defines success in terms of money.
Money is incredibly important. You need enough of it to achieve "success", however that number is likely much lower than most people think.
To me, success is defined by my happiness. And to that end finding and doing the things that make me happy in my life is key and those things don't revolve around finding ways to get more money.
@@SL-jn8cz In my younger years I would have agreed with you on this. As I've aged my view has changed. I don't care what people think about me. I only care about what I think about myself and I know I'm a good person. If someone takes issue with my behavior it's usually because of a deficiency they possess. Needing recognition from others to feel "successful" lets them have influence over your actions. You end up being a person who is not free and a weird concoction of behaviors that you think your social group will admire the most. What kind of life is this?
Well being happy to me means having the luxury to worry about others. To do that you have to have enough money to not worry about yourself.
Success has no age, productivity does.
true!
A simple message born out of a series of data and research. Great. That gives scientific support to those videos who simply tell you that you can succeed at any age.
"The harder I work the luckier I get"
The harder I work the harder I work. Other people benefit but not me. Been working 100+ hours a week for twenty five years. Making just enough for insurance and groceries. Sounds like you actually got lucky. Some of us will work 100 hours a week until we are in the grave.
Success is inhibited only by fear and procrastination
Not only... But mostly yes
Illness? The economy that surrounds you?
Narrow sighted man, your experience does not determine the rest of the world.
@@MrTepik I think he was talking about regular people, not with disability... But you got that economic factor right. surrounding milieu plays a huge role too
Maybe it is in first but when you think about it’s something else. When you feel fear and procrastination, chances are high you try to do something you dont have passion for. Mostly because your ego is telling you, you should do this and that. Real success comes from passion. Just look at the REALLY (true) successful people. They have passion. The dont had any kind of much fear or had to motivate themselves (which leads to procrastination). There are a lot of scammers and liars who want to sell you their dream made out of fear, greed and egoism.
@@ZennExile Finally, a commenter who actually watched the video! You deserve a cookie
*Just superb explanation between success & performance*
Nem hittem hogy valaha làtok egy magyar előadót ezen a csatornàn. Ràadàsul egy nagyon modernkori ès alulèrtèkelt tèmàval.
We live way longer than our previous "geniuses". We need to start a shift in society from thinking that we die at age 60. Imagine how much you did in just your first 20 years of your life. Do you really think that when you are at 60 and have about 20+ years still to go, you should just give up? No! Your children are out, you have time. Be an entrepreneur, learn, nothing stops you. Only you.
*focus on trying be the best you can be and keep productivity high!* 💪
@@ZennExile but the rich people from my personal experience try to be the best they can be and keep productivity high more than most poor people I've met so idk what that even means
Many do that but they don't succeed. There is no unique ideas.
@@rawstarmusic guess that depends on how one defines success. I'm successful but just not as successful as i could/want to be... And if money is how one defines success(which would be erroneous in my opinion) then most people don't know anything about it or how to build it and therefore no matter how hard they try they'll fail
@@ZennExile you know nothing of me or my perspective but i must remind myself your just a random on the internet and to you i am the same. We know nothing about each other perspectives. We only see a small narrow part of each others "perspective" not representative of reality. I hope you have a great life either way 💪☺
Side note:
you probably know this, but if you get a good mulitple random sample sizes, you need not get the whole population, because the T-distribution (used when you don't have the necessary population statistics) will be very close to the Z- distribution (used when you do have the prerequisite stats) with some quantifiable margin of error.
Have a great day or night(depending on where you are)
@@Je.rone_ You can measure success against your ambition whatever that is. Many can't be economically successful because it takes talent and there is a lot of competition in that field. One has to be smart ot know ones abilities.
Before I watch this, I'll guess "there is no age for a greater success"
Thanks for saving me the time from watching it lmao. There is a huge correlation between age and success and to ignore it would be ignorant.
I have 3 years managing experience yet struggling to find a new job because I’m in mid 20’s, every employer thinks I’m too young and inexperienced (despite meeting application requirements of 1-3 years preferred lol).
Also your career grows with your age and experience = higher success.
Your network also grows with your age as you meet new people and build it.
So yea thanks for saving me the time from watching a load of horse crap. Ted has gone really liberal lately :/
Yeah you were right. But he's quite wrong. Something goes away and all who wrote songs as young stops and are unable at 40.
@@carsonhunt4642
That person guess only half-correct.
An entrepreneur is twice as likely to succeed in starting a company in the 50s than in the 30s.
However, in science, each research paper has exactly the same chance of hitting the jackpot.
Reina Camp 🔥
Make things Happen doesn't matter about the Age!
Just because Einstein said so doesn't mean it's true... My grandpa became successful in his 50's... Even productivity has no age limit
Einsteins right.
rawstarmusic not in this case... many stupid people think he’s right because he was right in something else 😆
@@AlexSage The data that supports Einstein is overwhelming and all songs are made of 20+ people Steve Wonder and Paul McCartney are missing something, ideas are gone. Trust me and Einstein. You can be smart still but you have no unique ideas that actually fly.
@@rawstarmusic what do you mean ideas actually fly? you mean successful? did you know that Einstein was genius in only few branches of science and that doesn't make him a genius in everything. Einstein wasn't even a good student, if you know his biography... The reason why he was genius in some branches of science was because he thought about one problem for many years (not minutes), and that's what gave him a genius status, not because he was astute...
@@AlexSage I think that you have never solved a problem for which there has never been an answer. You wouldn't even know when you were right. Check again he wasn't a bad student. He later was forced to use math at a high level. Maybe you can give an example of one who is a genius on many things? He worked on some problems. He didn't work on other problems. That is fairly simple to understand. He just didn't work on medicine for example. Maybe we smell jealousy in your arguments
Success is about how your performance being useful to others.
Thank you László. You inspire me , in my classical guitarist, and teaching success. Specifically as you are my native country fellow.
Regards,
József
A hopeful talk in an age that is age-bound in its construct. What age provides (often and not always) is experience. Experience, in turn, leads to better risk assessment, forecasting and realism. This of course links with a better understanding of how things actually work, even where "disruption" is seen as key. What are you disrupting and what might the consequences be? How would your "disruption" make things better? That requires a degree of maturity, not necessarily age-bound, but it might help!
"Seek knowledge from cradle to grave."
"the ultimate aim of knowledge is finding meaning not success."
"knowledge is not power; it is a light that guides."
"seeker is not always finder."
"Wisdom begins with losing all your fears."
"A scholar who speaks a lot makes many mistakes."
"Working without aim steals your time."
"Time is only valuable if you find it short."
"When you have no idea what to say, keep silent."
"look at the face of the word not face of speaker."
"Knowledge makes man silent.
"Poverty is hunger, knowledge is a need; one can be quenched one cannot"
Ali ibn Talib
I've been here all day to learn English
Me too I want to enroll in the medical college
Not the best lecture for that lol
Success is kind of subjective too.
Only depending on where you live and if you have any disabilities. Everyone has the potential to be successful. Worrying about being successful is moving backwards. Just work very hard and be enthusiastic doing whatever you do or what to do.
@@mcrettable subjective definition: "based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions."
True, but for this analysis to be meaningful, it only requires consistency.
Albert Einstein was a late bloomer. Didn’t he work as a clerk at a patent office? His wife was incredibly intelligent and quite good in mathematics. It is quite possible that she helped him with calculations and then he blossomed as a result of her and didn’t he abandon her after he became “successful” ? 🤧 💔 I’m glad this video breaks the stereotypes.
success comes after 10 years of practice , that's the truth! someone who starts at 20, he or she gets it at 30. someone starting at 30 achieves at 40. It's about having a chief aim in life!
The so called 10 years of practice rule only applies to certain repetitive hand eye coordination physical skills. Like playing the piano. Or laying bricks. But you can become an expert in many subjects, skills and areas of life in a relatively short time if you are willing to focus your attention on it.
one of the most interesting ted talk.
Very nice TED-talk! Also if you close your eyes during the talk and listen carefully it's as if some words are from the mouth of mr Bean. Especially when the speaker lowers his voice to point something out.
Why do you have to bring up Mr. Bean....the talk and Mr. Bean's comedy is so different
greenlandconsulting because I can.
Why do you have to complain about it. If the joke doesn’t suit you than scroll on.
the interesting question is indeed "why do we stop trying as we get old ?", maybe this has to do with a growing philosophical hability coming from a growing awareness of death, as ricardo semler puts it : we stop asking "what will i be remembered for ?" but "why should i be remembered at all ?"
If you feel like giving up remember Kentucky fired chickens made it in his late life.
Kentucky fired chickens? Didn't even know they worked for the state
@@florisr9 It's a government conspiracy, Kentucky was unsatisfied with the FBI having their spy birds, so they wanted spy chickens. But it didn't work out so well cause people kept eating the chickens along with the spy equipment, that's what mercury and lead posioning is from. They covered it up and found it too costly to keep hiring chickens, so they got fired.
gracias por subtitularlo .. maravillosa aportacion.
Albert, you gave me hope!
12:50 He's referring to the age old 'Numbers Game' tactic. I'm a writer(non-published) and watch all kinds of tutorials and tip videos.
From what I've gathered that's what makes all of the rock star writers successful like King,Rice,Tolkien or even Spielberg. They are household names because of Content Volume. Many of them have said that sitting down and writing,actually doing the work is all that matters. They've learned that worrying about if it will be a hit or not doesn't matter. If it is or if it isn't you just write that next one.
Particularly for book authors the more books you have available the better. King has well over 50 available for sale which each book represents a potential reoccurring income!
Success may be on age matter but it can be achevied by hardwork and failure
And never give up on yourself
yes you are correct!
3:41 "your performance is about you, but your success is about all of us."
Yes, it is really accurate observation!
That gives me chances, I'm 26, tried a lot of areas, from engineering, design, hotel management to international relations, got my degree in Chinese. But still can't figure out the best area for me. Kind of confused with the direction I wanna go to
Are you serious?!
@@sebastianelytron8450 yep
@@mavadim how are you now ?
Your performance is about yourself.. but your success is about those around you..
This one is the best in couples of weeks.
No matter what, I loved “bursts”. I also learnt the story of George Szekely from that book!
Our performance is bounded while the possibility of our "SUCCESS" is limitless.
In some cases when you become older you become more creative and more productive . It is only depend on you and on your career
EXACTLY! The only one holding you back is yourself!
The older you get, the more projects you do, so the less time available for each, thus a lower chance of them blowing up.
incredible talks.Thank u TED
The older you get the fewer ideas you have. You go by what you know= other peoples ideas.
Great stuff
Genuine speaker💓
There’s still hope in life
Laszlo barabasi ,a genius !
Yeah if you know someone wealthy than your more likley to get networked inti a good job or even a good college etc.
@@ZennExile Luck is also a big, big factor = being in the right place at the right time. But if one isn't a success, one always has to ask oneself, "Did I give my very best?" If the answer is "no", than one can't complain.
Just download this video and embed it in my business plan for a new venture...hope it works
I love this topic!!
Lisa B And you look cute
You're an individual. Theres a lot psychology and anecdotes out there about life but you get to decide what happens. You aren't bound by anyone else's standards. Your life is so unique and so are your circumstances so don't let anyone tell you what you can and cannot do - they're not you!
Very good and inspiring Ted Talk! But more fascinating for me are all these comments below - where are you from, people?! Is there any country inhabited by so intelligent humans only? I want to move there 😁
I'ts a great pleasure to read them all, even if English is not my strenght. Seriously, I'm impressed. Best regards ☺️👍
Perfect give a speech
Wait, so if I understand correctly, one of his conclusions is that as age increases(to a point), the likelihood of your business exit being successful also increases. But couldn’t that just be an effect of how long one runs a business for? If you start a business at 28 and exit at 30, you are probably exiting because the business wasn’t working out, or perhaps were impatient. The older you get, the longer potential duration one could’ve been running a business for. Sure there’ll still be 50 year olds who tank a business after 2 years, but there are also others who could’ve run a business for ~ 20ish+ years. Unless a 30-year-old started a business at 10, they aren’t old enough to have been running a singular business for very long.
This is exactly why data science is dangerous in a wrong frame of reference. If all inputs are equal, Success is a perseverance in failed attempts
Can you please explain this statement further?
13:17
The graphic in 15:25, is Successfull Exits in precentage?
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friend's of them? ""👈
I wonder if the reason that most people after the age if 35 don't seek that level of fame and success is because they have other priorities like starting a family as people in the comments have said or is it really because people around them are telling them that they're too old?
Love it!! Super interesting! I feel like working right now 💪🏽
Get to work! 😛
All these objections ! He doesn't talk about the meaning of life or the good life. Just about the succes defined - in this case - as the recognition of performance by society.
Conclusion starts at 12:32
Good one. ☺️☺️
I became incredibly successful only after I started a new company at age 60.
Hi Will, congratulations! 👍
Don't take me wrong, but how many not so succeded businesses did you start before? I am really wonder how big part of success is an experience?
Hi Will, is it your first company?
@@bizling 😁 the same question at the same time!
Hello Anka,
I worked in outside sales in my 30s, 40s, and 50s and made good money but when I started my internet business at age 60 I taped into a national and international market. For at least 2 months, we made a net of $20,000 in one month. I would call that a success.
@@bizling
No, but it was my first internet based company.
Thanks for the spanish subtitles ✌👌
would be good to find who/if there are in the world ones that goes up in productivity at older ages
mind blowing!
One of the problem I have is that success is defined by our society, why is the faster runner more successfully than the other and the same can be said about having more money therefore more successful. I disagree with that. Success is the way you feel about anything yourself, not other. By I, achieving nothing, YOU would or the world consider me not successfully but I consider myself very successfully so who is right, YOU, the WORLD or I!
Because the TED is financed by zionism jews Mafia!
@@rivas97 My point being that, success should be defined by you without input from other. Somebody in the slum of India who can feed his family would due to his circumstances be more successful than what we in the West find success.
Less than a minute and already 50+likes
Fast watchers. : D
I would relate wealth with strategy. Success is relative.
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Giving a little hope for those of us up in age, thats still spinning on the hamster wheel and feeling tired. Take a break then get back to work...life aint over...yet.
Very interesting. I guess that younger people would have more energy for papers and things. I know that I.Q. decreases with age, so this was actually very surprising
But so called I.Q. has nothing to do with success, creativity, how smart you are or even if you are a genius. I.Q. is only one form of measurement and it only measures I.Q.
Carol Mosher False. I.Q. has a strong correlation with openness (about .8) which is a strong predictor of creativity. And yes I.Q. can be used to determine genius because technically speaking someone is a genius if their I.Q. is around 145
@@whalingwithishmael7751 Since creativity, success and genius are all subjective terms hardcore stats mean nothing. The only thing I.Q. can measure is math or other numerical ability of people that have studied and practiced that exact math or numeric task. And even if you are a genius at math it does not make you smart at everything.
Wrong. IQ is stable over your (healthy) lifespan.
Bravo.
Happy birthdayyyyyy❤️❤️
Just reinforces the achievement fallacy, that we are defined by our success. The reason people stop putting in so much effort as they get older is because they realize that achievement is fleeting and will not lead to long term fulfillment. Few if any on their deathbed wishes they had gotten that Nobel prize (or whatever award/recognition). See the top 5 regrets of the dying.
well... I guess the take-away point is to keep trying regardless of your age.
What is even success at all the first place?
Who decides what success is and by which terms I should follow / believe they are right to decide for me / everyone lol/
For me everyone is successful already. Have a good one.
I agree!
pareto is always lurking.
What is success
Aren't creativity and productivity the same in some ways?
I don't know if in the graph/chart showing late age entrepreneurs having successful exits, consider the 'age' of forming the company or having a successful exit? Because if it's the age when they are doing successful exit, then it could be the bias that people are forming good/successful companies when they are young, and it's just that by the time their effort yields they have aged?
Maybe, but I feel like the graph is biased in an other way. Had it been something like start up ideas that are merely conceived in one axis and success in the other axis then we would see the same trend.
Older people are wiser to start a company when they know the disadvantage their age has. Young people on the other hand are naive and that affects them in the opposite way.
If you had a disadvantage in a competition with a high fee to enter, then you are surely better than the average if you are entering it. Mind that your estimations of how good you are should be better the more disadvantaged you are.
ted is real useful things to me.. i dont know who invent it ..anyway
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Happily it means that I am at the age of three times the chance of success!!!
Check out the book OUTLIERS , it goes deep in this topic and discusses why some of the most successful moguls became successful.
Is the speaker from Australia?
Summary: success can come at any time.
Productivity won't change when we figure out how to stop the aging process.
Albert Einstein was asked by a reporter how he feels to be the smartest person in the world and he replied saying he wouldn't know you have to ask Nikola Tesla.
LOL devastating use of sarcasm
Dude... when you publish a good paper 20 years ago and see the citations now, understand that people cited in 20 years so now you're reading your achievements...
Ist thanks
Claps.. Audience got what they want!
Is it just me or did he have to stop himself several times from bursting into song?
Zeno's paradox bros, turtle always wins.
I believe his last slide and conclusion is misguided.
I feel like if you are 60 you might as well have a really good idea/start up to present if you are going to do it at all.
Let's say you have a wrestling competition in which there is a sizeable drop off the older you get in performance and this competition also has a harsh punishment for losing (maybe you pay a high fee to enter). Wouldn't the oldest group in that competition be way above average in success (within some limitation of course). They pay the fee against the disadvantage and at the same time they don't have the nativity of youth, so the decision is calculated and thus higher chance of success.
Looking at football players, so many new players enter the stage every year, the oldest are amongst the best. They ve stayed despite the odds so they must be better than the average new comer that might be outed the next season.
You can hold a position that you've already got as an older but you have no unique ideas, making it from nothing into something. You can only cling on to your position
These are the "survivors". How about all brilliant scientists whose work didn't achieve resonance?
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41, bachelors, mba, never made over 30k. Avg annual income over past 10yrs, 18k gross
No, I haven’t attempted the s word....yet
Keep pushing. 🙏🏽Prayers to you. Everyone has a unique contribution to society. Wishing you the best!
Well that’s good news!
people always tell me to open my own business but i dont know where to start.
Yesterday was my bday, im 17
Kebdoesstuff I’m turning 18 in October