Pick anybody real who you consider a sage. Were they always so wise? Of course, not. How could they have been? Who would have wisdomous insights into life and people without having lived much, like they wouldn’t have done when they were young, or even a child if they became wise even in their youth. No sage starts out as one. Now, in that regard, here are some fun thought exercises to try. What stupid things would these sages have engaged in in their lives before they became sages? And at what point would they have become sages? It’s not like they weren’t a sage one day, and a sage the next, so “point” would probably be a time span over which time more and more people considered them wise, rather than a moment in time.