Never have I ever seen so many platitudes in one post. Makes me think of the Flemish “Bond Zonder Naam”[1], who monetise these kinds of uninspiring sayings where I live. In Dutch also called “tegelwijsheden”, because your grandma would have these sappy and dull ‘wisdoms’ painted on a tile in their kitchen. Apparently some people also see money in it[2].

[1] https://www.bzn.be/ [2] https://www.tegeltjes.com/tegeltjes-wijsheid

This kind of reads like what you’d get if you asked an AI for advice from an old person

> NEVER criticize, blame, or complain.

(Constructive) Criticism is what advances our development as a species, not sure why that is a necessarily bad thing

I wish the author a happy birthday. But - and I hope this is taken in a spirit of constructive kindness - the post is fairly generic and bland advice. I'm sure it is well meant, but I hope I never feel tempted to post something like this when I'm 72.

Redditors always write the most boring, uninspiring, safe, mediocre advice.

No soul, adventure or brutal honesty

> Work on a passion project, even just 30 minutes a day. It compounds.

I need to do this. I know my project (just a passion, not a side hussle or for income). Tell myself I need to. Then daily life gets in the way. 10 years or more.

> NEVER criticize, blame, or complain.

Hard sell on HN :)

This was also one of the more interesting points in Dale Carnegie. Wish I could live up to it more often.

My pick right now is "Feeling good is better than that “third” slice of pizza."

I have only fairly recently worked out that how food makes you feel is at least as important as how it tastes.

Fitting that it's "old.reddit.com" :P

72 is the new 60. I love the wisdom that comes with age however I hate the back pain.

I normally dislike lists like this but I like some of these.

"It’s usually better to be nice than right."

"Nobody gets to their death bed and says, I’m sorry for trying so many things."

Oh the good old elder’s wisdom, as useful as a fork in a soup as always, do not complain, do not criticise, what a wonderful dystopia

What about: look after your body.

Being old doesn't make you wise or particularly knowledgeable.

Good list, but it's something that I've seen (at least most of it), for many years.

Is this posted here to demonstrate that Reddit is now dead and that it has become Facebook?

Good collection.

My gripe, for every one of them, I hear a contradicting one, from an equally reputable source. And then it gives me a cognitive dissonant Diarrhoea. And stresses me out. DAE face this? How do they handle it?

> 15. Not all advice is created equal.

That's for sure....

But trust me on the suncreen. (Baz Luhrmann)

Boomer wisdom.