Do you feel like you keep getting smarter?

My 5 year old self was much smarter. I’m a bit wiser.
 
A lot of things!

If you feel like you already know everything… well I don’t want to be that person.
 
texasclouds said:
Post something you can do now that you couldn’t do 5 yrs ago.

I got an old weed wacker running that 5yrs ago I’d given up on. Feeling like I’m Rain Man right now.
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There is a small check box that says "stay logged in" on the POA site. I didn't know that five years ago.
 
I understand what you mean. Seems like I look back on myself 5 years ago and wonder how that idiot made it so far. Historically that's always been personally or professionally. As I look back today, I don't feel like I've made much progress on those fronts, but if you had told me 5 years ago I'd be an instrument rated pilot and own an airplane....I would've laughed.

In another 5 years, my oldest will be 18. That will be interesting.
 
don't know if I'm smarter or if I just know different things.
 
No. But I can see why people might believe that they are. I suspect that what is really happening is that every second of every minute of every hour... etcetera... the world as a whole is getting dumber.
 
OK, read through all the posts…. Uhhh …. What was the question again?
 
Two years ago, after retiring from a 40 year career in engineering, I started a part time online business. I was hoping to make an extra $500 a month. Damn thing took off and I'm making as much money now working 8 hours a week, as I was working 40 plus hours a week in my career.

I must be getting smarter....
 
Lndwarrior said:
Two years ago, after retiring from a 40 year career in engineering, I started a part time online business. I was hoping to make an extra $500 a month. Damn thing took off and I'm making as much money now working 8 hours a week, as I was working 40 plus hours a week in my career.

I must be getting smarter....
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Lndwarrior said:
Two years ago, after retiring from a 40 year career in engineering, I started a part time online business. I was hoping to make an extra $500 a month. Damn thing took off and I'm making as much money now working 8 hours a week, as I was working 40 plus hours a week in my career.

I must be getting smarter....
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You aren't a Nigerian prince by chance are you? One has been trying to reach me and...
 
texasclouds said:
Post something you can do now that you wouldn’t do 5 yrs ago.
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Buy another weed whacker and throw the old one in the trash*. As I get older, I've found that in a lot of situations its just easier to pay someone to do things for me.

*granted this is after I've bought and installed a lot of carb and tune up kits for my weed whackers and other small engines. I've also found that its easier to buy the fuel right next to the weed whackers or run a mix of oil and 100ll. It doesn't rot the hoses or go bad like pump gas and oil.
 
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texasclouds said:
Post something you can do now that you couldn’t do 5 yrs ago.
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-- Teach people how to fly (legally!)
-- Program in python, and make plots in matplotlib
-- Make sourdough bagels and English muffins

...which means I've probably pushed three important things out of my brain...
 
Timbeck2 said:
Buy another weed whacker and throw the old one in the trash*. As I get older, I've found that in a lot of situations its just easier to pay someone to do things for me.

*granted this is after I've bought and installed a lot of carb and tune up kits for my weed whackers and other small engines. I've also found that its easier to buy the fuel right next to the weed whackers or run a mix of oil and 100ll. It doesn't rot the hoses or go bad like pump gas and oil.
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Honestly, maybe it was me being more stubborn and having better tools than before. A compression test of 160 psi told me the engine wasn’t trashed like I previously thought. I was getting spark. Pulled off muffler and could see the bore, piston, and rings looked good. Fully disassembled the carb, cleaned, blew out the orifices. New fuel lines that I had left over from a motorcycle project. I said I’m going to reassemble and try one last time, them bam she fired first pull. Tuned the needles and went to work.
 
Apparently I’m not so smart


 
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I can choose not the shave if want to. Couldn't do that 5 years ago.
 
When you're younger, five years is a long time. I didn't know how to do a lot of the stuff I can do now. So, I'll do three things I'd never done before five years ago but can do relatively well now:
Fly.
Drive a stick shift.
Shoot.

I'm still learning the last one, though, so I'm not sure if that one counts. I did learn in the last five years, though, that it is entirely possible to get out of bed before 5am multiple times in a row because you had to shovel the driveway before you could leave for work. I'd prefer to forget that one. ;)
 
SkyChaser said:
When you're younger, five years is a long time. I didn't know how to do a lot of the stuff I can do now. So, I'll do three things I'd never done before five years ago but can do relatively well now:
Fly.
Drive a stick shift.
Shoot.;)
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You're well on your way to being a fine and proper woman!
 
Solve expert level killer sudoku in 8 minutes. Here it is if you want to try:

https://sudoku.com/killer/expert/

Full disclosure: took me a while to get that good. I bought the app, it’s worth it, works better with no ads.
 
gradually learning various sudoku techniques
 
I now make the most kickass sourdough bread there is. I even fixed the mower. The Steingar rocks!
 
I've learned a lot about Lycoming engines from nothing in the past few years, that's good, but I feel I'm getting stupider every day about how I expect people to behave in today's world.
 
Knowledge and intelligence are two different things. I learn more stuff as time goes on, but I definitely don't feel any smarter!
 
I've always thought "smart" is a combination of intelligence and knowledge. I've known some highly intelligent people who weren't very smart.
 
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