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One of the cruelest jokes life plays on us: In terms of surprisal, the marginal returns on identity key anchoring traits like looks, intelligence (both right/left brain), openness to experience, diminish astonishingly rapidly with age. Ironic nasty big surprise.
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If you're reasonably open to experience, intelligent, and good at pattern matching, you'll arrive at a "seen it all" plateau by about age 35-50. It won't be true, but it will feel like it. Genuine, category/pattern busting surprise is harder to find past a point in our universe
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The personality you’re egoistically attached to makes at most +/- 20y difference in running out of interestingness. After that other, non-identity anchoring traits keep you going.
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It continually surprises me how different your takes on wisdom/attitude at a particular age mismatch what I remember. Everyone has their own movie.
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