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You know what? It's good to be smart. It's good to have intelligence.

There's a lot of discussion about intelligence, artificial intelligence, intelligence.

There's a lot of smart people.

True.

Not so many people who are courageous or humble or curious.

Curious is wonderful.

Yeah. Or who seek wisdom, ask God for wisdom.

Now we're talking.

Wisdom makes you curious.

Yeah, so don't be fooled by the whole,

like people just so attached to this smart, smart, smart, smart, smart.

It's like, well, yeah, okay.

But the other stuff is really what's in demand.

Here's a gentle reminder for you if you are someone who is an older person.

And you're listening to this.

I saw this.

And man, right.

Said your parents being addicted to reels in short form content is a disheartening thing to witness.

So here's somebody who's writing about their parents.

It's terrible to see their personality going through atrophy.

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