Youth or Youthfulness, Experience or Capacity for Experience

'He must be good because he is experienced.'
'Lets hire him. He has significant amount of the right experiences.'
'This job requires action. Lets get some fresh young blood for this role.'
I often wonder whether these statements are valid.

There are 2 statements I relate with:
>'Youthfulness matters more than youth';
>'Capacity for experience matters more than experience.'

Ability to handle a situation matters, and that ability is not a function of age.

In some situations we overvalue youth. In other situations we overvalue experience.

Sharing a link to a HBR article, written by Prof. Kishore Sengupta and 2 other professors. The article is titled 'The Experience Trap': it talks of why people don't seem to learn from their experiences.
http://hbr.org/2008/02/the-experience-trap/ar/1

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Sourav