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RosieG

Is the main benefit of getting older (besides surviving of course) becoming smarter so you will make better decisions? If not what is?

Posted - May 19, 2020
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  • 16906
    Intelligence is innate. Age can allow the acquisition of knowledge, for those who will learn. Wisdom, for those who weather the storms and come through the fire with their metal refined and pure.
    For the arrogant know-it-all who has never had to do anything except spend Daddy's money, it pretty much has no benefits at all.
      May 19, 2020 7:45 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    IQ can grow larger over time with knowledge R. How much I am unsure. But I do know that the IQ you have at  20 is not the same one as at 65. At least when I was tested I was told that by the person who administered the IQ test. It can increase dependent upon how you have used your brain over time. Have you asked questions, taken classes (Logic is a great class for that which I took once upon a time) engaged in conversations with intelligent knowledgeable people and have a memory that retains what it learns? You are born with it. You are not limited to how you use it or what it was at birth. It helps if you are very curious because then always asking questions gives an opportunity to get answers you wouldn't otherwise have gotten had you not asked.. That's entirely up to you. Now the know-it-alls don't know it all and for some reason it bothers them so pretend they do...not for thee and me for themselves. It seems to be very important to them to be "better than" and advertise it. It used to bother me because I like brilliant folks who don't think they're such hot stuff but I learned to not mind because they need it so and who am i deprive them of what they need? Next time around I'd like to be born wealthy. I wonder whom I would be? Still me? Of course not. Would I be a much better person? Maybe. Or much worse? Mebbe. Thank you for your reply! :)
      May 19, 2020 8:54 AM MDT
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  • 10694

    Everyone gets older, but only a few become wiser.   

    Time passes at the same rate for everyone – 60 seconds per minute, 60 minutes per hour, 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 52 weeks per year, 10 years per decade, 10 decades per centaury. 

    The average lifespan is about 79 years, or 2,492,997,154 seconds.  The average person spends 1,041,378,558 of those seconds sleeping or trying to fall asleep. They spend 262,974,383 seconds watching TV, 1,36,771,200 seconds eating, 416,534,400 seconds working, 42,075,901 seconds exercising, 28,857,600 seconds in school, 11,750,400 seconds getting ready to go (i.e. getting dressed, putting on makeup, etc.), 31,795,200 seconds socializing (out with friends and/or family), 20,304,000 seconds standing in lines, 34,128,000 seconds … uh… “romancing”, and  258,940,800 seconds for everything else.

    The seconds fly by at the same speed for everyone…tick…tick…tick….  Some use their fleeting seconds to learn, while others just ‘kill’ them.  Tick…tick…tick….  Some use their seconds to help others, while others use them to help themselves.  Tick…tick…tick….  What do we learn form each passing second?  Becoming smarter doesn’t necessarily mean we’ll be wiser.  A smart person can learn how to cheat others for their own profit, or they can learn how to invest their own money so that it increases substantially.  A smart person can learn to write a computer program that will steal the credit card numbers of unsuspecting customers, or a program that can take ships to distant planets. 

    Tick…tick…tick….  We all get older.  It’s unavoidable.  The seconds tick by.  However, it’s how we choose to use the seconds of our life that will either make us wise with age… or just an old fool.

      May 19, 2020 1:42 PM MDT
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