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my experience of aging has been, my brain got more stupid yet i am somehow not more stupid

10:24 PM · Apr 11, 2020

NYC (Feb22–Mar13)

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The car gets a little worse but the driver gets a little better

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its true truth GIF

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I feel like I don't process things as well as I used to but I've improved my heuristics so much that I'm still way ahead.

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Michael A. Lowry

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Coping/adapting to change

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The amount of heuristics that’s built over a lifetime may lead to cognitive efficiency but a worse ability to adapt to the world since each heuristic makes you less in touch with an ever changing reality.

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Dutch Proverb: "We grow too soon old and too late smart.”

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Tailcalled (tailcalled@schelling.pt)

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Crystallized vs fluid intelligence.

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If you're over 26 or so, this is to be expected

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smbc-comics.com/comic/cognitiv

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Many studies showing the higher the level of intelligence one starts with, the lower the percentage decline as you age.