I turned 43 today. Maybe I'm wrong and actually wiser than I think, but realistically, just about any advice I would give a person today is heavily colored by w

I turned 43 today. Maybe I'm wrong and actually wiser than I think, but realistically, just about any advice I would give a person today is heavily colored by whatever I happen to be doing right now that seems to be working. The biggest thing I've learned is that I keep changing my mind about everything and the best way I can think of to live a life right now does not agree with what I would have said 20 years ago and most likely that means it doesn't agree with what I'll say 20 years in the future. I guess this is why I don't have a blog. I do write, quite a bit, items that could be blog posts, even items that could be books. But I write for myself. I don't publish any of it, in part because I don't have any strong evidence I'm actually correct about very much and in part because much of what I would have written 20 years ago would embarrass me today if I had published it. Maybe this woman has it figured it out better than I do, but I doubt it. Do your best. Behave in a confident enough manner that people will take you seriously as an employee, spouse, friend, whatever it is. But never become too confident on the inside. No matter how certain you seem on the outside, stay humble and remain open to the possibility that you are actually wrong. I think there's an enormous need on the part of a typical human to take a position on everything they're aware of. Don't give in to that. Admit to yourself what you don't know, either because the facts don't exist, aren't accessible to you, or you simply don't have the time and intellectual energy to do the research necessary to truly understand everything that might matter. Become comfortable with your own limits.