Um, you just said that the way to grow as a human being is to avoid accumulating any experience whatsoever. Wow. We're definitely conversing between planets here.
The way *I* you seem to forget I am one of those Boomers who are into *I* and I am not dis-counting what you do for a living at all, but it's far from the sweat that many men had to do to take care of a wife and 7 children with little education....