If Only They Would Listen to Me!

When I was a sophomore in college, I was brilliant. Perhaps, in my final years, I will be again. Zach Weinersmith of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal charts epistemic humility over time.

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When you're young, you worry about what people think of you.
When you're middle-aged, you don't care what people think of you.
When you're old, you realize nobody was ever thinking of you.

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When I was 33, I read Harry Browne's How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World and realized that I didn't have to (or even could) solve anyone's problems but my own. I had read the same book a decade earlier, but wasn't ready to accept that truth.

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What a great diagram to help explain to my 22-year-old son how to gracefully make the transtion between prodigy and old fart.

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Well I'm right at the top of that graph...and I'd have say that's about what I think- way too complicated to try to fix.

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