You gained the Wisdom because as I said you had the pattern recognition to eventually break your own cycle to understand what you father told you. It takes some people much longer (or never) to figure things out than others, usually when it's far too late. I'm talking smart as in 120+ IQ compared to 60-70IQ (Somali)… have you ever dealt with Low IQ people? 60-70? I saw a guy at the gym recently he couldn't even figure out how to use those scale balance weight machines to figure out his weight and he was mid 30s.
Everyone is curious… main sign of Genius/intelligence is memory capacity and pattern recognition, it is easily identifiable by the time a child is ~7