Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM
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Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM
#2That seems insanely young. I'm in my mid-40s and don't feel like I have enough life experience to run a neighborhood, much less a country.
Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM
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Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM
#4There's a list of the youngest world leaders since 1900 here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_youngest_state_leaders...
Oh, and also the current youngest:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_state_leaders_by_ag...
Number 2 and 3 after Sanna Marin are Oleksiy Honcharuk, Prime Minister of Ukraine at 35 and Kim Jong-Un of North Korea at 36.
Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM
#5> Mr Rinne stepped down after a plan to cut wages for hundreds of postal workers led to widespread strikes
great to see a politician actually facing consequences for their actions
Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM
#6That seems insanely young. I'm in my mid-40s and don't feel like I have enough life experience to run a neighborhood, much less a country.
Aside from experience, there's also the notion of a change in demeanor, to something more pragmatic and measured, that happens later in life.
I don't know if there's credible research that confirms it, but it seems true...of course with notable exceptions.
Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM
#7Congratulations to her but it seems like age is seen as less of a factor in these countries. From an outside perspective, the Nordic countries have a very by the book form of government. Meaning the government/prime minister isn’t the result of the hopes and dreams of the constituents but more of how do we get things done with the least amount of turmoil. Kind of like how your local city government is run, where things seem more administrative and less political. Maybe that is the secret to their success.
Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM
#8That seems insanely young. I'm in my mid-40s and don't feel like I have enough life experience to run a neighborhood, much less a country.
your lack of confidence is actually a positive indicator if you take into account the inverse of dunning-kruger
Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM
#9That seems insanely young. I'm in my mid-40s and don't feel like I have enough life experience to run a neighborhood, much less a country.
Agreed. For a long time I had thought the age requirement for being president in the US was kind of dumb - why don't we just get the right person for the job, no matter the age? But as I've grown older I realized what you have - it's extremely difficult to run anything, and I would prefer leaders that have been in extremely high, laborious, and difficult leadership positions before over those who are outlier-level young (such as Mrs. Marin). But then again I'm basing this judgement purely on age and not on many other factors so this is a very shallow analysis.
Re: Finnish minister Sanna Marin, 34, to become world's youngest PM
#10That seems insanely young. I'm in my mid-40s and don't feel like I have enough life experience to run a neighborhood, much less a country.
Is it really about life experiences or ability to connect with the people they are representing? Women are better at this as their maternal ability helps them connect with kids at a level which men simply fail to.
So a woman aged 35 much be better than a man aged 50 at this. It's not a suprise.
For long time, women have successfully run families. They served as unpaid, unacknowledged head of families and successful taken care of house expenses and kids.