Not entirely sure how though. Maybe it's the result of doing too much 'knowledge work' in a structure that wasn't great for me ("you will now work on a project about x subject, whether you want to or not"). There's some kind of rediscovering innate interests and passions.
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Right now the general mental posture I have towards things like research, analysis and sustained attention on complex, long form writing is one of fatigue and drudgery. I know it wasn't always like this, but then again I also seemed to miss an 'intellectual' phase of life.
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It might be that I'm hijacked by the general distractibility that is characteristic of modern life, and I should explore the digital minimalism / 'deep work' stuff. But that feels like a push factor, when what I want to unlock are the pull factors. It might be that I'm tired.
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Perhaps this is another part of the 'healing' journey that needs to happen after 10 years in the corporate world following another 14 in the school system. Maybe this is the first time ever that I'm really able to be intellectually self-directed and it's a little disorientating.
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Replying to @m_ashcroft
yea I’d guess you’re recovering from burnout curiosity is the natural state IMO, you don’t need to particularly do anything to make it happen the rest should be obvious
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Semi-related: do you guys have thoughts on how dramatically, if at all, passing age 25 changed your intellectual curiosity/related capacities? I have a hazy idea that things slow down after then bc something something neuroplasticity; not sure if this tracks your experiences
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Replying to @selentelechia @Tharin_P and
complicated, from my perspective in some ways I've never been sharper, in others im a little less fluid than I used to be. crystalization is a good way of putting 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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Replying to @Tharin_P @selentelechia and
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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but I don't wanna do that anymore, nearly as much advantage I had fifteen years ago was Wanting to learn as much as possible as quickly as possible
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Replying to @eigenrobot @Tharin_P and
i guess I do still spend much of my free time listening to history podcasts though so who knows
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