If you have limited time (and limited capacities), you want to limit your attention to things you can actually get done, which means more modest, more concrete, more immediately enjoyable, more "near mode."
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We all know that young people love to party and travel and middle-aged people settle down. The settling down is “longterm” in one sense (you’re not burning tomorrow’s productivity on an all-nighter today) but short-term in another sense (you don’t have time to try on a new life.)
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One of my large regrets was not having studied in Europe/living there as an adult. Age does make it harder to recover from missteps in life
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Teenagers are funded by their parents for years. It’s easier for them. At least middle class and up. I’m not particularly impressed by them. If adults were randomly handed 7-year support packages with no responsibilities besides learning and growing, they’d do similar things
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Of course the *people* in one life stage are no more or less impressive than the people in another life stage! This whole analysis is about the affordances people have and how that shapes behavior. Not everything has to be a diss. :p
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