As you've aged, you've come to realize you are _____ at thinking than you thought you were
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Bad categories. Different. My thinking now is completely orthogonal to what came before, but right/wrong is not the axis
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Maybe better than I thought b/c I've been able to advance some important ideas so far. But I am not as good at doing math in my head as I was when I was younger.
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I started listening to Susan Sontag’s _Against Interpretation_ today and it’s making me feel like a blithering idiot. This sort of thing happens regularly and is probably good for me.
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Im more concerned about the people who think they’ve gotten better. If anything life has taught me that just when I think I know something, or think something, I realize how much there is to learn. It’s actually a blessing of the human condition.
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I think people on average become more conservative in their self-assessment across the board as they get older (not just in thinking)
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Thinking is an ill defined metric.
If referencing "processing" power then it's unchanged.
However the framework that the thinking is taking place in is more crystalline/rigid/utilitarian with age.
Rather than new epiphanies it's merely refinement of the die that's cast.
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This is awkwardly worded. I think now that I am better at thinking now than I was 10 years ago. I also think now that ten years ago I wasn't as good at thinking as I thought ten years ago.
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Undecided but certainly not for others to access. You perhaps may broaden a touch with the alteratives. Then. Who am I to comment?