Older people are not shy about telling you about how you’ll physically slow down and degenerate in a 100 little ways as you age, but they’re very coy about admitting that you also get mentally slower, duller, and less imaginative. Some mix of denial and genuine fear I suppose.
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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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You could also engage with your immediate surroundings more, giving up some internal focus. It seems likely that a lot of the imaginative, youthful thought is directed at modifying schemas—but at a certain point it's better to go use them rather than endlessly tweaking.
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Life moves through three eras - priest, king, and prophet. Priest: do what you are told (like a child); King: use your training and strength to run the household; Prophet: sit and divulge the wisdom of your experience.
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The young lack wisdom and the old lack fire. But the old have wisdom and the young have fire. The young need the old but the old also need the young.
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Things get boring because we become stupid but also because things become familiar. Radical change in focus, into unfamiliar domains, renews interest. So why don’t people change focus? Social, material, and identity commitments — greater gains from being bored & expert.
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