The people you’ll admire at eighty mostly spent their twenties being curious, not cool.

Cool is maintenance work with a short shelf life. Most of its cost sits in what you cannot do while performing it: ask an obvious question, be visibly new at something, care about a thing that is not currently acceptable to care about. Curiosity runs on the opposite economics, because anything you are willing to be bad at for a month becomes something you can do for life. One is rent and the other is savings.

Be a beginner at something in public this week. Ask the question you assume everybody else already knows the answer to.