I posit that learning anything (even fengshui or astrology), at any age, will make you smarter, as long as you bring a pair of critical eyes with you. Besides learning about the actual “thing” (which you can still fail at the end of the day), you can always introspect to figure out why/how you failed and what your limits are, and then you’ll maybe find closure in saying “I’ve tried. It didn’t work out. There was no 'wasted potential' - the potential was never there to begin with. And I’m a wiser person now.”
The title is there to get you to click, there's not much need to analyze it. The article has little to do with it.
This reminds me of On Cinema At the Cinema when Gregg Turkington, as a parody of the film critic persona, often bases his critical opinion of the films based on what he thinks of the title and runtime.
I posit that learning anything (even fengshui or astrology), at any age, will make you smarter, as long as you bring a pair of critical eyes with you. Besides learning about the actual “thing” (which you can still fail at the end of the day), you can always introspect to figure out why/how you failed and what your limits are, and then you’ll maybe find closure in saying “I’ve tried. It didn’t work out. There was no 'wasted potential' - the potential was never there to begin with. And I’m a wiser person now.”