I Barely Remember Anything From School and That's Okay

Yesterday, I came across Wittgenstein's Beetle in a Box thought experiment...and I had a flashback. I had definitely learned about it in high school… and completely forgotten. Not just the details...the whole thing.

Looking back, it wasn't a lack of intelligence. It was a lack of context and curiosity. I was all over the place, not really engaged, living in my own head, easily distracted. Only in adulthood did I start to enjoy learning.

That's the beauty of fluid vs. crystallized intelligence: facts might fade, but the ability to reason and make sense of them gets stronger with age.

Who knew all it took to appreciate philosophy was a little maturity, some coffee, and zero exams?