3 things millennials can learn from their older coworkers. (via CNBCMakeIt)
Show up before your appointment is scheduled. It can take seniors more time to get ready for a meeting or obligation. When you're late it sends the message that you don't respect the effort that they're making. For example, Herschel Garfein, a multi-Grammy award winning composer recently collaborated on a recording, in which he set the poems of Donald Hall, an 89-year-old who served as the U.S. Poet Laureate, to original compositions of music.
"It's a five-hour drive from Brooklyn to Don's farmhouse in New Hampshire. I would always allocate an extra hour for the drive. Each time I showed up, he would cheerfully remark, 'Right on time!' The one time I was a few minutes late, he said nothing — but I got the message," said Garfein. "I have started to arrive early for other appointments, and it makes a good impression.
When you spend time with seniors, they will help you see the forest from the trees. They'll give you more perspective and share experiences to put what is happening in your life into context. And above all, they'll help you not take yourself so seriously. You might start to notice the smaller things and start to have more fun.
Case in point: "While I was at Don's house conducting a photo shoot for the album," said Garfein, "he quietly excused himself and went to the freezer, where he grabbed a pint of Ben & Jerry's ice cream."
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