I'm quite a curious person. I don't mind being the one who doesn't know things, a role I often play in QI.
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.