You know, there was a time I’d have agreed with this, but yesterday at nearly 51 I walked up the emergency stairs of the UK’s 2nd tallest building 5 times, passing people well under half my age each time… never could have done that when I was physically young.
If you don’t completely destroy the joints, heart, kidney, liver, and lungs when your mind is young and stupid the much wiser and (hopefully) smarter mind you’ll earn can push the slightly more knackered bits further and faster then you’d earlier have thought you could go.
Travel. See the world. Meet people where they live. Invest in learning how to be uncomfortable. And never, ever, ever, EVER drop a coin into an elephant’s nostril.
> Our thinking on this has evolved - being able to beat absolutely everyone at chess is now not considered enough to be intelligent. But previously we did consider that a useful bar.
Perhaps an actually useful bar to be considered intelligent would be the capacity to not consistently create economy-destroying irrational exuberance bubbles?
When I was in highschool and editor of my school newspaper I got an email declaring, with proof about twice as long as this article, that I was fifth in line to be the Antichrist, after Saddam Hussein, George H. W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, and for some bizarre reason Boutrous Boutrous-Ghali.
From that era, it was passed around that the number of letters in the beast's name was 6-6-6 and, ominously, that matched the number of letters in the full name of the president of the United States, Ronald Wilson Reagan!
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