“If your profession requires mental processing speed or significant analytic capabilities,” writes @arthurbrooks, “noticeable decline is probably going to set in earlier than you imagine. Sorry.”https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/work-peak-professional-decline/590650/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share …
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Replying to @skdh @arthurbrooks
Thanks! It's good for everyone to think about this, but especially people over 50. I'm busy trying to figure out my next moves: how to do interesting things and have fun as my sharpness decreases?
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"Bach easily could have become embittered, like Darwin. Instead, he chose to redesign his life, moving from innovator to instructor. He spent a good deal of his last 10 years writing The Art of Fugue..." Good! I'm thinking of writing more expository articles and textbooks.
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In 1979, Chern told me that an old mathematician's natural function is as mentor and expositor -- especially of ideas whose profound merits (and attendant intuitions) have been forgotten or obscured by the passage of time. And then he proceeded to continue to do exactly as ever.
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