This theory would predict that, for instance, if new medical discoveries gave us 20 more years of life expectancy, 60-year-olds would think differently than they do now; they'd be more interested in learning, new projects, and receiving bad news and criticism.
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Something like that, but subtly different, I think. People begin to *think beyond their lifetime* when they have children. I find myself thinking things like “ok, the rest of my life is for Simon now, and future other kids, not primarily for me.”
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“I may never get to see the Promised Land, but I can set my children up to get there” is parent thinking.
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I think that’s because you often recognize yourself in them at a younger age. It makes you realize,at least that’s what it did for me that everything changes overtime and that we need to reboot our our own “knowledge” refresh our memory get rid of the old. The older I get the..
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Less sure I am of things. Bc of the progress that’s been made . Adjusting my brain to knew knowledge means getting rid of old data or old memory to make room for new perspectives.
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