- With regard to your elders, you learn immeasurably more listening to their regrets and admitted mistakes than by listening to and taking heed of any directives they might happen to throw in your direction. Remorse and regrets are fantastic teachers inasmuch as they are deeply rooted in honesty and humility; bombast, overconfidence, and tall tales, conversely, are fathered by conceit and only superficially rooted, and then in a quicksand-reminiscent substrate which consists of inflated egos residing in alternative universes.
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