There’s an old story about the ant and the cockroach that my parents told me this story growing up. The point of this story was definitely an interesting moral. Once upon a time there was an ant and a cockroach. They were both friends, but had completely opposite habits. All summer the cockroach would have […]
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Book Smart or Street Smart
What does it really mean to be “street smart” or “book smart”? You always hear idiots boasting about being either one or the other. What do you consider yourself? My mother always told me I was street smart. It might have been a little mental gymnastics on her part to make herself feel better about […]
Growing old Doesn’t Mean Becoming Mature
In the old days, information was harder to obtain. As we get older, we are more likely to experience new things and run into new information. That’s where the whole getting mature thing came from. Back then, the average person was limited to the information of those around them. Anecdotal evidence was the most popular. […]
College is a Waste of Time
“I suppose it is because nearly all children go to school nowadays and have things arranged for them that they seem so forlornly unable to produce their own ideas.” – Agatha Christie This sounds like blasphemy, but logic sways on how ineffective college and school really is. For starters, school is an institution that is has […]