Disappointments: when 23, reading a paper, realizing: 'this is Peak Human'. I had grown up: now differences were quantitative, not qualitative. Never again would I see leaps like object permanence, counting, reading, the future, death, logic, sarcasm, programming, statistics...
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Replying to @gwern
I might be a late bloomer, but remember feeling the same at 23, and then faced significant breakthroughs in my mid thirties, and various smaller ones every two years or so. And full self awareness is still largely in my future.
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Yeah, it is a big inhibitor for personal growth if you falsely assume that your personal development ist basically over at 30 or so.
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Growth often happens when you don't expect it
7:36 AM - 20 Nov 2018
from Cambridge, MA
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