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This is a strange article that doesn't seem to say much of anything. It almost seems like it is just a piece written and published to make people feel better ab
by eximius 9y ago
This is a strange article that doesn't seem to say much of anything. It almost seems like it is just a piece written and published to make people feel better about aging. Even if the premise is true, it is incredibly insubstantial.
I, personally, would expect that wisdom does not come with age, but with experience and training in how one thinks. That doesn't come with age, it comes with time. The sooner or later you begin this training, or the harder you train, greatly effect when or if this wisdom comes. Though, in people who pursue wisdom, I doubt their pursuit decreases with age.
A final aside, the article's representation of wisdom ("When you’re old, and something goes wrong, you say, “That’s okay. There are other things that will go right.”") sounds awfully like apathy, if not careful. I believe wisdom is more than that.