Ideas are the most powerful things in existence. Here are mine.
Here’s a fun and revealing thought experiment: What would you do if stranded on a deserted island (no other people on it) with all of your basic needs (hunger, water, shelter, …) completely provided for as long as you remained?
Neat idea on the way home: wouldn’t it be nifty to “catch” pathogens as they infect the body by advertising “I am a cell ready for infection” (bet there are marker proteins for that), then perform the bait and switch on them as they make their move, walling them away and exposing them to the immune system as a form of proactive, adaptive, and needle-less vaccine?
Education allows for upwards class mobility, reducing poverty; it drives advances in medicine and agriculture, improving healthcare and quality of life and reducing hunger; it allows leaders to make better, historically informed decisions, promoting peaceful relations between nations and improving the general welfare of citizenry through effective governance; it enriches the arts, philosophy, and humanities, allowing us to probe more effectively our own natures and purposes; and – most importantly – it encourages dreaming and discovery.
A mistake is a decision made incorrectly and inconsistently given one’s currently available resources and knowledge. It is *not* merely a regret, viewed from the vantage point of one now wiser having seen its outcome, but a decision which, acting rationally in the exact same scenario, with only the knowledge available to you then, would not be repeated.