One of the best reasons to specialize in something deep is that it’s a way to beat the mental aging process at least locally. You’ll still lose the war against time in the end, but you’ll win a battle or two on one front at least.
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The most annoying thing about mental aging is that things get slowly more boring. Like 1% YoY. It takes youthfully sharp cognitive faculties to keep things truly interesting. So memories become more important in keeping yourself entertained. They’re like precompiled binaries.
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That’s why deep expertise is an anti-aging serum. You’re collecting more precompiled binaries along the way. Of course the downside there is becoming close-minded within the narrow anti-aging zone. Expert tunnel vision as a time tomb.
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I'm not sure I'm convinced by this take. I wonder if anyone has studied this?
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Being mentally slower and duller means they don’t know they are getting mentally slower and duller, and being less imaginative is frequently misread as coyness.
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Unless they have average memories of sharper times. I definitely remember being at least 50% sharper and faster. Experience has just barely allowed me to make up for that.
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Depends on your maslow load. I’m feeling way more creative since leaving FB.
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Maslow load? That’s the first I’ve heard that term. What does it mean?
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Loss of mental acuity. I felt it first time in my 20s when I quit smoking for about a year. Freaked me out. Went back to it. As I near my 50s, I feel the same cloudiness at times. Oh well...
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