Did wisdom come with age?

Garydavid

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What do you think? Are you much wiser now than before?
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I don't believe that wisdom necessarily comes with age. It can, but only if one is constantly exploring and learning what there is to learn in life. It requires curiosity, desire, and a bit of effort.
 
Depends what you mean by wisdom. I understand people better now, something which comes with age and experience, but I still make the same mistakes.
 
Yeah

I think so

I no longer try so many audacious things


Rare to get wisdom any other way than by living long enough, seems

However, it’s not automatic

A sardonic poster I created awhile back;

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Well first of all rapid advances in technology has made a lot of the knowledge that us old folks acquired obsolete.

And second of all, in spite of the fact that so many of us boomers are nostalgic for the good old "Leave it to Beaver" days, the culture of those times upon which many of our "values" were based was marked by racism, homophobia, misogyny, and sexual repression, all of which were bullshit. So rather than "wise" many of us are just narrow minded old curmudgeons.
 
It always amazed me over the years whenever I came across someone, as young as teenage, who smugly acted like they knew everything
.. have met a few. Wonder how time has put them in their place.;)
 

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