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When I was in my twenties, I noticed something interesting—the people I hung out with where all older than me. They were folks like my managers at work, volunteers at church and guys I met in the course of building a business. Life seemed to just kind of throw us together.
My wife found the same thing. She was a young mother of one. The moms in her play group, hanging out in the lobby of the pre-school, or volunteering with her were almost all older than her. Many had more than one child—all where founts of knowledge.
On the rare occasion we could afford to go out, we found ourselves socializing with these same folks. Almost unconsciously, we found ourselves learning from their experience—little things like the best pediatrician in town or the best auto-repair shop and big things like how to budget for a growing family and plan for the future.