Comment by gjkood

There's a saying, "Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement".

It's just possible that a twenty something may not have spent as much time making bad judgements as a forty something. At forty you will look at your twenty year old self and wonder how you could have been such an idiot even though at that time you would have thought all the forty somethings were idiots.

It happens in parent-child relationships all the time. Every teenager thinks he's smarter than his parents. The parents have experience on their side. Wait till the teenager becomes a parent. Now that's enlightenment.