Hello, my dear friends! Welcome to this new episode of Walk With Johan. I am very very happy, very honored, that you took the time to spend this moment with me in this podcast and that you chose to join me for this little walk. And today, we are going to talk about age, we are going to talk about… I am going to share a personal experience and I hope to bring a little optimism and inspiration to each of you, because age, learning as well, we are going to talk about learning and age, well it is something very important, I think, and it has always been one of the keys to the Walk With Johan podcast.
So, the context of all this is that I sometimes, from time to time, have a certain number of doubts about my learning abilities as I get older. This is really something new. And although I am only 41, I feel that there is still a difference compared to when I was 30. I feel that, at 20, 25, 30, I had much more capacity, much more facility to learn things than today, at 41. And again, I am only 41. I think, but it is very difficult to see exactly what it is, I think that it is mainly the memory aspect that makes me ask myself questions. So, obviously, when you are a little older, you have more experience, you have more wisdom, you also have more caution, but you also have the impression of having less capacity.
So, wait, I'm going to be careful because there's one of them cutting the grass, so I'm going to walk past him briefly and I'm going to stop. That's when you record outside and you're walking, inevitably, there are some problems. So, sorry for this first problem. I hope there won't be any more.
I was telling you, therefore, that with age and experience, we have, therefore, more experience, we have more wisdom, more prudence, but I have… in any case personally, this will not laos whatsapp number data be valid for everyone… the impression of having a little less capacity than before. Before, I really had no doubts. If I wanted to learn something, I told myself “no worries, it’s just a question of priority and time, I can learn anything”. Whether it’s a language, eh, I learned English, German, a little bit of Italian too, I learned a musical instrument, the guitar, I learned a lot of things related to creating websites, creating communities, to communication. And today, I have some doubts.
For example, I would like to learn the piano, because my daughter Emma started playing the piano, I recently talked about it in an episode, and so I would like to learn to play the piano. I would also like to learn a new language, why not Arabic to really learn a language that is different from the ones I have learned so far. So, you see, I have projects, I have ideas, but it's not sure that I will... I don't tell myself "I'm not going to succeed", but I pay more attention and I have more doubts.
And I'm not sure if these doubts are linked a little to the lack of time, because despite all the difference compared to 15 years ago, is that today I have three children, Authentic French keeps me very busy, so it's clear that I have little time to learn and to implement new learning. So, that's still something that is key. But I'm not sure if these doubts are linked to that, to the lack of time, or if I doubt my skills linked to age.
Deep down, though, I think and I hope that I don't doubt my abilities because I always think, "Well, I could do it later." I think, "Well, OK, right now it's probably a bit tricky for me to learn to play the piano or it's a bit difficult to learn Arabic, but there's nothing stopping me from putting it off and doing it a little bit later." So, I think it's more a problem of time than age.
By the way, I have a great inspiration in my quest for lifelong learning, it's my grandfather, my mother's father. My mother's name is Dominique and my grandfather's name was Jacques. He learned all his life. And I remember very well seeing him still learning lots of things. He had lots of hobbies during his retirement. He learned electronics, so he created electronic devices. He learned video, he had a camcorder and he made films. He traveled a lot. He was very, very curious. By the way, he always encouraged me, he gave me books, encyclopedias that he had, and he had a beautiful library. So, it is once again, in my opinion, proof that curiosity and reading and traveling, well, they shape individuals. So, he always inspired me. And even today, I say to myself: "Well, if he could do it at any age, I can do it too."