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rob05c  ·  3352 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Your formative years, your productive years , your reflective years,

    as he saw it, there were three stages to his life ; The formative years, the productive years, and finally the reflective years.

I've heard the same idea phrased differently: "Spend the first third of your life learning all you can, the second third doing all you can, and the last third teaching all you can."