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I wish. At best you learn to avoid some class of mistakes at the expense of seeing everything through the lens of experience. I would trade my "wisdom" in heart
by danieltillett 11y ago
I wish. At best you learn to avoid some class of mistakes at the expense of seeing everything through the lens of experience. I would trade my "wisdom" in heartbeat to have back the raw computational power and mental flexibility of my youth.
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- ThomPete 11y agoWisdom gives you other things that aren't just replacing computational powers. It gives you an ability to understand the world in a very different way, to put you more in control of it, to make you more grounded, less erratic. But each to their own of course.
- danieltillett 11y agoI don’t feel any more grounded or less erratic than I did when I was 20, but I certainly am dumber. I am not saying that wisdom is not a useful tool (how many time do you really need to make the same mistake), but that I would be more than happy to give it up for my youthful brain.