Literary Discussions

Smartness is often conflated with facts memorized. A young person may know many facts about current events or the Internet, algebra or calculus. The wisdom that comes with age, and old age, has to do with discretion, self-control, moderation, proactive vetting before action, delayed gratification. Postponing desires for the sake of achieving long term goals. Anyone may find facts with search engines but wisdom and discretion is something which comes only from years of experience and cannot be easily imparted to a young person simply by blogging or giving a lecture. On the other hand such wisdom may lead to overly conservative and cautious manners and too little risk taking so the young naieve person may take risks which will lead to success (but such risk taking behavior may also cause harm.)