I’m not really sure what the points of these brainstorming posts are, I guess brainstorming just to get thinking is a purpose in and of itself, but this just sounds like thinking in circles to me.

I think some of your principles, like “there is always room to learn more” are ideas that have been around for thousands of years, especially in buddhist thought, and youd probably find that in a philosophy class. Some of the rest of your conclusions just seems weird to me; like how a 55 yr old is going to be wiser than a 75 yr old because of “emotional baggage” and “bitterness”, as if there is some statistic that most 75 year olds are bitter, or that those 20 years somehow have more “emotional baggage” than the first 55 do, or just the fact that a couple 18 year olds came up with this theory based on thats how they think it probably works… I mean, coming up with some arbitary order for success and failure as an “ideal” without it being tied to any person or circumstance… just strikes me as weird and inapplicable, I guess.

Then again, I find most philosophical arguments, including those in my college philosophy class, just as weird and inapplicable, so perhaps I just dont understand the purpose of it. Perhaps just the process of brainstorming helps spur useful ideas at some point down the line, though, I dunno.