I am 70 years old, retired from retail business. Everybody knows me in my town. 3 kids, 4 grand kids.
At this aged I am trying to find out what means:
Experience
Open minded
Hard work
This is what I got. For experience I believe that we learn not for how many years of repetition we do something. Repetition brings perfection. What makes some one experience is how many times we solve a problem. Problems challenge us if we want to solve them. To solve a problem we have to go back to our knowledge, our believes, our common sense. I love problems. Problems help me to grow.
Open Minded help us to be free. Help us to open our horizons. Help us to have more questions, more curiosity. Help us to be free, to know that is something more then just number,(salary, taxes, mortgages, tickets, saving, 401k,etc). Open minded is the way to know the universe.
Hard work? I always believed that was progress. I believed all base on the number. Through hard work I would find my goals, my dreams.
Today I know that Hard work without passion may help in the numbers, but would never help to get my dream, find my goals.
NOTE:
All those comments come from a good friend of mine. I am 30 years old.
Live your life with passion. Don't give your life away.
Thank you.
