When Smart Makes You Dumb
Can a smart thing make you dumb? We all have sudden ideas while jogging, taking a shower, watching the clouds, or even while driving. Our minds receive tons of information every day and store them somewhere and recycle them. You may not remember how you have a certain information, where or when your mind perceived it. But you act based on the stock of data stored anyway. And even innovative ideas are generated accordingly. Old people are the precious diamonds because they have the accumulated knowledge stored over the years, a thing which enables them not only to judge wisely but also to foresee to avoid the silly holes that naïve people fall into . And that’s what we call “experience”. They naturally - at least this is how it feels- know the pros and cons of a situation, are able to evaluate an event or a person. Add to that, their feelings and guts are to be trusted as the probability to be true is so high. All this is based on years of accumulated knowledge received from the outside...