*wistful thread* I'm a little saddened that over the last few years my general sense of intellectual curiosity and 'interest in things' has dulled somewhat. I'm no longer an 'infovore'. I get glimpses of that excitement when I come across new ideas and I want to rekindle it.
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Could you think of this as a distinction between raw processing power (which perhaps decreases after a certain age) vs total knowledge/competence (which increases because it stacks atop the past)? (aware we're talking in v vague terms, so perhaps meaningless)
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im not sure ive gotten dumber but I have gotten more tired or easily bored however I have learned so much stuff that learning new things is typically very easy when exert the slightest effort. i could run circles around college age me in any subject, I THINK
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25 wasn't as noticeable to me as 30 was (or I only *noticed* at 30) The character of my thinking has changed. I'm less able to Actively Focus on one topic for 12 straight hours, but I'm more able to slowly mull stuff over for 9 months and let things ferment into richer ideas
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