Slang ages faster than milk. What you say changes; how you treat people shouldn’t.
CREATIVITY
WHAT THIS MEANS
The surface of how people talk turns over constantly, and every generation’s vocabulary eventually sounds dated to the next. Underneath that, the things that make someone decent have not moved at all: keeping your word, not humiliating people, noticing who got left out. Style is local and temporary, conduct is not.
Worry less about sounding current and more about being consistent. If you are around people much younger or much older, let the words adjust and let the manners stay fixed. That combination is what makes someone easy to trust across an age gap.
A QUESTION TO SIT WITH
Which of your ways of treating people has stayed constant?
MORE IN GROWTH, CHANGE & REINVENTION
- Good friends let you try on new versions of yourself without saying “that’s not you.”
- Some questions disappear not because you answered them, but because you became someone who no longer needed them.
- You can escape somebody’s influence physically while continuing every behavior their influence created.
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.