Why do people under 30 think they are so smart? Most of them can not even use spell check!?

Answer 1

Well now, I'm not sure whether I'd agree with you that this problem exists with people under thirty, I've known some much older people who are the same and I've also known some much younger people who are more humble and mature.

I will however accept that this problem lies mostly with the young. And I can relate to it too. When I was in high school, I was one of those people who knew everything. I tended to be a book worm so I was constantly reading and learning new things. From these adventures I did end up knowing a lot more than my peers so it was logical that indeed I knew everything.

The problem, at least for me, was that I didn't know what I didn't know. That came a lot later.

The German Shakespeare Goethe wrote a very famous play called Faust. While the play wasn't about knowing it all, its opening scene was what started me on the road to being more humble eventually.

The play opens with a withered old man who was clearly learned and wise surrounded by his many books. He turns looking melancholy and frustrated and said "I spent my whole life learning only to discover I know nothing".

Initially I didn't understand what that meant but in time I came to understand that big time. The more I studied and learned the more I began to ask increasingly more profound questions and before I knew it, I realized that I really didn't know anything at all, I was merely scratching the surface of something that is a lot more complex and involved than I ever imagined. At that point I came to understand that the more I learn the less I know because there is a universe of knowledge out there that I cannot live long enough to absorb if indeed we ever do find the answers at all.

The other thing that made me more humble is wisdom. Wisdom is the merging of knowledge with experience. It's knowing what to do depending on the circumstances. When I was young I lacked wisdom, that comes with age and introspection and reflection as we gain ever more experience. As I got older I tried to apply my vast store of knowledge and I screwed up its application big time a lot more than I succeeded.

I learned really quickly that while I may have a head full of facts and sayings, I didn't have a clue when each applied to a given issue. That too made me really humble.

From those days forward I've always tended to feel that I am just a kid walking the exciting and challenging path to maturity and I've never changed that attitude since.

So why do the young know it all? Because they don't know anything. They haven't the experience yet to realize that true knowledge is wisdom and they haven't yet learned enough about the world to realize that there is a vast universe of questions we don't have any answers for. Within that ignorance it's easy, when you have a head full of facts, to assume that you do indeed know everything.

Thankfully as you have observed, that condition eventually disappears as we get older and wiser.

I hope this answers your question.

Answer 2

eye can spelt.

Answer 3

ok