John Wooden is my favorite coach of all time. What a fabulous basketball dynasty he built at UCLA – and doing it all in the right way.
Wooden was credited with saying, “It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”
This is what we elderly folks have over all those kids. I spent the better part of my life thinking I knew it all in so many facets of my world.
I knew exactly how much I could drink before I became dangerously impaired.
I knew everything about the way to publish a magazine and make a gazillion dollars.
I knew exactly how to cut corners on paying my state and federal taxes.
In each of those cases, I took a disastrous dive because all I knew was not nearly enough to stay out of a bunch of trouble.
Now, deep in my 70s, I have the wisdom to know what I didn’t know when I “knew it all.”
Coach Wooden, you were right.