Staying Sharp
tmikew: Why do you think you are not sharp? I bet your problem is that all of your problems in your current business domain are solved and you are bored, not dull. What is a little dull is reading through lists of academic achievements and future academic proposals or thoughts. It comes across a little like trolling for compliments.I am 44 I have house, wife, 3 kids. When I was 23 I was freaking clueless, though I didn't think so at the time. (There is a good chance I still am clueless) School was easy, Navy was easy, studying and taking tests and getting good scores was easy. I was bored and figured there wasn't much else to be done. I was completely wrong about that.So coming from an old guy. I would suggest dumping your easy job and finding one that is challenging for you. There are plenty of hard problems to solve. All of the sharpest people I know never let go of a hard problem until they figure it out, and they refuse to slog through the easy stuff like some kind of drone. There are surprisingly few people in this category. All of the sharpest people I know read continuously about a wide variety of things, and they build or write about things based on their reading. All of the sharpest people I know put down the keyboard and have some other really interesting thing they do.