Youth only thinks it knows, while experience actually does

The audacity inherent to youth, consequently, also seems to reach its peak levels here. While not knowing much of anything, we claim to know everything. Truth be told, we have a very little amount that we do know. But, for the vast land of knowledge beyond our reach, we just arbitrarily claim that as conquered territory as well. It’s a good thing we aren’t trusted with much authority when young. Our huge gaps in knowledge make us like a powerful missile with no guidance system. You can aim us at a target, but we’ll take out everything else along the way.

To be fair, there’s no way we can claim as our own the knowledge our elders took years to acquire. But it’s in the claiming to know where the infraction lies. And what makes it worse is not knowing what we don’t know. On the surface, many things seem simpler than what they actually are. Our reductive analysis folds under the weight of reality, much like a house of cards. We’re foolish to think this flimsy structure can hold up under the immense weight of scrutiny life demands. And we’re left despondent when we later find out that it fails.

Experience is like a series of clues a detective picks up along the way, leading to the ultimate solving of the puzzle. And in this way, experience is the best teacher. It provides the strength for the structure to hold up under pressure. What metal rebar provides to concrete, so experience provides to knowledge. Without it, mere knowledge crumbles and is left in a dusty heap when shaken. I can learn and know a lot about a subject by reading a book, but I can’t experientially know that subject from reading a book. It’s only when I get out into the real world and apply what I know that it all comes together; and we find the application of knowledge is much different than just the knowing of it. What I can be tricked into thinking works through knowledge, I can find doesn’t work through experience. So, in a way, experience is the proving ground for ideas.
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We aren’t the same person at 60 that we are at 18. Time will mold and shape us in ways we can’t fully realize at the time. We might graduate from college and think we’re finally done with school, but that’s when class really begins. And thankfully, time and experience have a way of humbling even the most audacious of us—if we’re lucky. We can be thankful for this. When properly receptive of the training, this is how the impudent adolescent slowly becomes the wise old sage—the kind that can later give valuable advice to the up-and-coming adolescents. The sometimes blissful ignorance of youth yield to the time and understanding of age.

I’m, for some reason, reminded of a famous line by Ronald Reagan in one of his debates with Walter Mondale during his re-election campaign in 1984. When asked by the moderator about his age, and whether he could handle the job of being President in his advanced years, he replied, “I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I will not exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.” Needless to say, he brought down the house with that line. Even Walter Mondale was laughing. But, while funny, what he went on to say was even more compelling—a famous line which I believe was a paraphrase of Cicero. He said, “If it was not for the elders correcting the mistakes of the young, there would be no state.” 

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