[Reeses]

Excluding wisdom, peak cognitive ability occurs about age 26. Albert Einstein's “miracle year” was at 26 when he published four groundbreaking papers, on the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, special relativity, and the equivalence of mass and energy. Most physicists are washed up by age 30 and then coast.

Older workers expect higher pay yet are not as fast thinking as they used to be. If pay decreased slightly with age, companies wouldn't be so motivated to lay them off.

[HamiltonJay]

Excluding wisdom.... Excluding Wisdom.. I have made and saved companies uncounted millions of dollars over the course of my career, most of it after I was 26 years old.

I freely admit I don’t think as quick on my feet as I used to, but I also don’t make as many stupid mistakes that cost boatloads of money because of it as well.

I have stopped many 20somethings from doing really stupid things because with the data and experience they had they thought they were making a sound decision, they didn’t have the life experience to know they didn’t have all the relevant data.