Trumpled (Alternative Leading)

[DJC]

I disagree.

Those would be outliers not the rule. 

Under 35 doesn't know enough about life and over 55 are too disconnected from the plight of the younger types.  It's just too disconnected.  It doesn't have to be hard and fast but you go outside those ages my rule would apply more often than your exceptions.  I'm 41.  The kids I work with have remarkably different challenges to mine when I was their age, but I can relate better to them than most people aged 20 years older than me.  Most people of that era are too caught up in outdated modes of thinking that aren't so relevant either. 

Before anyone calls this ageist, have a think about how we lived 30 years ago.  Supermarkets closed at midday Sunday, we only had free to air TV.  The internet was dial up if you had it at all.  Windows 95 wasn't out, kernahan was our captain.

30 years is a long time.  Have a look at what property prices have done in that time. 

The world is a very different place and whilst some people are connected to it, most aren't.  There's a huge divide.  You want to be happier about it, trim it down to 30 and make it 60, but beyond that is way too out of touch.

No, they’re not outliers.  Golda Meir was 71 when she became Israel’s PM, Indira Gandhi was 63 when she began her second stint as India’s PM, Margaret Thatcher was 54 when she became UK’s PM, Charles de Gaulle was 68 when elected as France’s President, Fidel Castro was 33 when he became Cuba’s PM, Xi Jinping is 73, William Pitt the younger was UK PM at 24, Queen Elizabeth was 96, Pope Francis is 87, Gabriel Attal was France’s PM at 35, Kim Jong Un became North Korea’s supreme leader at 29, and there are so many more leaders, good and bad, outside your age range.

Age is largely irrelevant to leadership.  Intelligence, principles, decisiveness, morality, knowledge, ruthlessness, compassion, etc are far more important.