run with what you have

Not all brains are created equal.

Growing up, I thought I was a smart cookie.  Smarter than the average bear.  Or snake.  Or fox.  You can't just skate through standardized tests like I did.

That is, until college.  And now in the workplace.  I am not necessarily the owl I thought I was.  Events slip my mind.  Words escape me.  My reason stops cold in the heat of a debate.  But most of all, I get stuck in routine, e.g. explaning things at work the way I have a hundred times before.  Treating information and scenarios like fresh occurances, as they rightfully deserve, would be more of a challenge, but it's difficult.

It's difficult to stretch.  & even the quickest, most able minds can suffer from idleness.

As we become older, there is so much more time to strive for betterment, to nuture your brain.  It isn't about natural ability anymore.  It's about picking up a book, remembering what you've learned, and actually practicing it.  Some people impress you that way.