A lot of people get dumber after college. It’s not entirely their fault. A job takes up all their time. Besides spending time with family and friends and doing chores — getting on with the business of living — a lot of free time is spent on staring at lite brites for entertainment.
“We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.”
David Lynch, Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Experience makes us wiser but not smarter
As we age, we’re able to resolve practical matters with less effort. But therein lies a skewed perception.
We accidentally interpret how things usually go as facts rather than acknowledging that’ that’s how the world works now. Change is constant, the possibilities infinite.
An educated person should never stop learning. They should revel in their ignorance, not as an excuse to know less but as a means of staying interested in understanding more.