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The secret of getting ahead is getting started

Mark Twain

Oh Mr Twain, with your brilliant brain, to me such statement is quite insane. We’re born ahead. Well. We’re born with a head.

And typically? As infants, we’re a-head of our time.

If you are over thirty and reading this, you’re done. Washed up. Finished. The world belongs to the next generation. They, raised in this new, connected world are far ahead of me and you when it comes to understanding what this world we’re living in is all about.

They are the future, not you.

Everything I can do?

My kids will do better.

Well… That’s if this ‘parenting’ thing is anything at all. Folks from my generation - generation x? We’re the first in a long time to have a quality of life and standard of living here in the west to not exceed that of our parents.

Well.

That’s only if you’re so foolish as to count material possessions.

Life on earth is getting better.

And all of this I attribute to the essay.

Essay?

Yeah, essay.

Here’s the origin of the word:

"tria…