As you get older, are you getting smarter—or just more stupid?

On the one hand, I feel like I've tumbled to a few of life's tricks over the years. Despite my best efforts, I've acquired some wisdom. But at the same time I catch my mind falling into pattern after pattern, and I know I'm setting up barriers for myself. Everything I see is filtered through my own experience, and my confidence in my rightness may in fact make me more and more blind.

Is this inevitable as we age? Do we really get more hip and more idiotic simultaneously as time goes on? Discuss.

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1 Experience=wisdom. We can play the odds only when we know the odds. The risk-taker in us will decide when to go against the grain. Me? Stupider. See?

Posted by: Darrell at October 22, 2006 06:28 AM (z5oXf)

2 It's not us. It is the younger folks getting dumber

Posted by: William Teach at October 22, 2006 11:00 AM (doAuV)

3 It's simple. As we get older, we become more actutely aware of how stupid we were when we were younger. The left is an exception to this. Their pride does not let them admit that the ideals of their youthful days were nothing more than self-centered wishful thinking.

Posted by: John at October 22, 2006 11:25 AM (6N676)

4 As I get older, I get more stupid...or I'm smart enough to now realize that I'm stupid. Maybe it's an early form of alzheimers.

Posted by: Shawn at October 22, 2006 01:01 PM (621cV)

5 I've become an expert on what doesn't work. I suspect that passes for wisdom among some folks, but I suspect there's more to it. -Bob

Posted by: Bob at October 22, 2006 04:46 PM (jZ67n)

6 Wisdom Realising that you have hit your thumb with the hammer before. Isanity Doing exactly the same thing with the hammer and hitting your thumb again.

Posted by: Jack at October 22, 2006 06:00 PM (LLrd7)

7 Both.

Posted by: k at October 22, 2006 09:38 PM (ESTJx)

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