Getting older doesn’t automatically make you wise. You have to actually learn from the years.

Experience only turns into wisdom if you look at it. Plenty of people repeat the same decade several times over because they never asked what the last one taught them, and age keeps arriving regardless. The years supply the material, and the learning is a separate job.

Take one mistake from the past year and write down what you would do differently now. That step is the entire difference between having lived a year and having learned from it.