Surprisal is a cognitive addiction of course, and a good one. But the hits get harder to produce. By 40, fracking surprise out of the universe turns into an advanced cognitive skill.
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Thank you for reading my long-winded justification for my writing mostly sucking this last year
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Addendum: there is a big element of surrender in accessing surprisal latent in the universe, and it becomes harder to surrender with age because we become addicted to agency. Even when risks are low, we resist. Kids surprise more easily because they surrender more easily.
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Found it helpful to move into slightly related fields. Engineering -> Management - > Coaching/Writing -> Guru-dom -> entrepreneur and so on.
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The surprise lies in the category of stuff that you "just know". (That is where you will be wrong, in ways that will crush an ego. So let go of yours, and your fingers will thank you.)
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