"And the mere accumulation of knowledge adds little without a backbone of values."
Yes, but more importantly is to develop an individual sense of purpose. Everyone spends most of their time doing things out of necessity, to build personal comfort, impress others, raise social standing. Sense of purpose is something beyond that. Something you'd want to be remembered by. A legacy.
Most people value things they don't have and are difficult to obtain. However, it's also a cliche' that those who reach the mountaintop feel an immediate sense of anticlimax. The striving tends to be more fulfilling. For instance, I don't know how happy Tom Cruise is, but the fact he learned how to fly a helicopter (and act out a scene at the same time) at 55 and has managed to stay in the sort of physical shape he's in gives himself a sense of continued purpose that most people his age have long lost.
That's the problem with youth in general, hence the problem with bangable women. They have no sense of what they were put on this earth to do, and so naturally they fall back onto little more than superficial pursuits and acting out of raw hypergamy instinct.
Yes, but more importantly is to develop an individual sense of purpose. Everyone spends most of their time doing things out of necessity, to build personal comfort, impress others, raise social standing. Sense of purpose is something beyond that. Something you'd want to be remembered by. A legacy.
Most people value things they don't have and are difficult to obtain. However, it's also a cliche' that those who reach the mountaintop feel an immediate sense of anticlimax. The striving tends to be more fulfilling. For instance, I don't know how happy Tom Cruise is, but the fact he learned how to fly a helicopter (and act out a scene at the same time) at 55 and has managed to stay in the sort of physical shape he's in gives himself a sense of continued purpose that most people his age have long lost.
That's the problem with youth in general, hence the problem with bangable women. They have no sense of what they were put on this earth to do, and so naturally they fall back onto little more than superficial pursuits and acting out of raw hypergamy instinct.