As you get older, do you get wiser because of age or through experience?

[Tarifa]

Your twenties can be a funny time. You bob around like a lost cork in a rough sea, amid waves of work experiences, new friendships and financial uncertainty. Your brain continues to grow. At the time it feels fine. But afterwards, you look back and think, “how did I cope with all that?”

At a younger age, every break-up has the power to punch you in the gut and leave you stranded. You think the world has ended. The pain doesn't get weaker when you’re 30 or 40, but you do become more familiar with it. It can knock you out seriously, but you know it will eventually go away. You’ll be able to evaluate the lessons you learnt, while seeing the positive side of it all.

Sorry for those of you who just turned 20 or are about to. But life teaches us lessons all along the way. We're not the same person at 30 or 40. Maybe a different version of ourselves.

[OlderAndWiser]

The lessons learned over the years are not learned simply because we have birthdays. Lessons are learned because we have experiences and we then reflect on those experiences to understand what happened, why it happened, and what we can do in the future to make our life better. Not everyone does a retrospective post-mortem and some people just never learn.

[Sunrising]

I think it's both, we become wiser because of age and experience.

A well known phrase is "time is the great equaliser".

Over a span of time, consistent study, reading, and experience allows anyone to master any subject regardless of their starting baseline.

[thegreenyogi]

Through experience. Age is purely a number. The only reason the two things are indirectly connected is that the more time you spend living ( each year that goes by) that equals 12 more months to experience life and that is what makes you wise.

[EmmaMary]

You only learn and gain experience through age.

[EmmaMary]

Thank you for the MHO.

[NathanDavis]

it is about experience but not only that... there's also the whole process of learning from such experiences and then, applying them as well

age might be one of the components, yes... but not the biggest nor the main factor for that

[exitseven]

Yes, by the time you are 40 you should have learned how to navigate the world.

[sage2021]

I'm a lot more wiser now than I have ever been.

[Nikki1989]

Experience, not age.

[FrodoSkywalker007]

Experience

[dudeinohio]

Experience