Anything truly novel is invented only during one’s youth， later one becomes more experienced more famous， and more blockheaded.

晏子春秋

And that's a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods. You know, we're often told that we live in very materialistic times, that we're all greedy people. I don't think we are particularly materialistic. I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. It's not the material goods we want;

未来不可预测的观点每天都在被我们轻易解释过去的能力所削弱。