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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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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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