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I am 29, but people think I'm 40...here's why..

Name: I am 29, but people think I'm 40...here's why..
Uploaded: 2022-06-11T21:00:12+00:00
Duration: 58 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In this monologue, the speaker explains that others often equate apparent age with the amount of life and business experience they perceive. He recounts…

11 Jun 2022 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker explains that others often equate apparent age with the amount of life and business experience they perceive. He recounts being told at 18 that he seemed 30, and now at 29 that he seems 40, because he has accumulated a volume of professional experience comparable to much older individuals. He attributes this to a highly compressed career trajectory: starting early, focusing exclusively on work, and dedicating virtually all of his time—both before and after typical work hours—to his business. By treating work as a mission and eliminating extracurricular activities, he believes he has amassed more career time and business insight than many people twice his age, leading to the perception of greater age.

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I think a lot of times people correlate age with experience. And so when people meet me and they're like, you seem like you're 40, what they mean is you seem like you have 40 years of experience, life experience, right? And so when I was 18 and people are like, you seem like you're 30, it's because they thought you seem like you have 30 years of life experience. And so you can be younger but accumulate more experience than someone who's much older than you. So I may have more experience in business than somebody who's 50 because of the amount of things I've done. And so for me, it's probably because I put so much volume into a compressed period of time. I started really early focusing on my business career and then I just did volume, right? Like I'm not somebody who has 15 other things outside of work. And so because of that, if you think about it, I've spent more time probably in my career than some people at the age of 40 or 45 because I don't do things after work that aren't work. I don't do things before work that aren't work. Everything revolves around work because work is a mission to me. And so because of that, I'm able to get in more experience than people are that are maybe twice my age just because of like the compressed amount of time that I've been able to put into it.