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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of this stuff you would have had no interest in learning as a child or teen!

As a adult, you have to expect to learn new things and pick them up as you go.  You don't stop learning just because you are an adult, and if you have that mindset, it is really unhealthy as your brain ages and it limits your sense of discovery and accomplishment in life, even in simple tasks.[/quote]

Actually, when I was 14, I asked my mom to teach me how to cook. She looked at me like I was from outer space and said that was not needed, successful people don't have to cook. 100 pounds overweight later, with health problems, I have been learning how to cook healthy, from scratch, every single night and am finally losing weight.

I kick myself everytime I think about that day and wonder what my life would have been like if I had be able to learn to feed myself properly and felt like I had "permission" to do so by my authoritarian parents.

Agree that you should never stop learning, but some things are better learned as children or teenagers and can haunt you for years to come if you don't learn them then. [/quote]

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