We're almost as far from the original Star Wars as it was from... the Great Depression(!)
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It's interesting getting old: more and more of the people you meet have lived their entire life in what seems like a thin layer of the now. It gets a bit hard to take them seriously.
Interesting! I find different ages tend to understand different things; I've learnt a lot being mentored by 25 year olds and by 75 year olds.
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Incidentally, years ago I looked at the careers of older theoretical physicists to try to understand why some 70 yos remain productive, while others don't. The number 1 signal I found: the productive 70 yos all had mentors - meaning people they seriously learn from & collaborate
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with who were decades younger than them.
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How do you find younger mentors? I can imagine it might seem gauche to discuss the relationship as such, so do you just ... sidle into it? Asking for myself.
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I find people whose work I admire, and make friends with them. That's rewarding on its own, and I learn a lot; sometimes it turns into collaborations, and inevitably I then learn immense amounts.
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