i feel like as i age, i'm losing raw mental power but gaining the ability to not pretend to myself that i understand concepts i don't actually, which kinda feels like it's balancing out?
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like, i think i used to have a lower threshhold for feeling like i grasped a concept; it would sorta tie into things i understood already and i'd say 'okay i got it' and move on; recently it feels like my threshhold is raising, like i notice my gaps much more
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Same. It’s definitely balancing out. We are definitely losing older circuits we really didn’t need in favor of tried and true common-sense-neuron-centers.
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Yeah, I think this is definitely a thing as you get older - there's a bit of ... calcification that seems to happen, that can give a little more confidence in the things you know, and a little more hesitation in the things you don't know? I can't really phrase it right atm..
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The stereotype is that older people are more set in their ways. So maybe this is more of a "as I continue on becoming more rat"?
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How much of the shift is physiology of aging, and how much is an intellectual circumspection based on real life experience? I feel the same dwindling of horsepower but that I have a much better filter for reliability interpreting new ideas, information and appreciating nuances
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Trading int for wis, classic progression. I'm a few years older than you and I notice that my ability to give a shit has gone way down and my level of self-care has gone way up.
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