when a topic gets sufficiently complex, your big picture intuitions collapse fairly rapidly, and you have to rely on aphorisms and other micro-level thoughts that you then have to grope around and weave together almost blind, because the dimensionality of the idea is too high
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US culture is particularly full of this shit. It annoys me. It gets in the way of actually having a generative, alive Act 2. It fetishes the affordances of youth. It blinds you to the affordances of maturity. It accumulates a debt of reality shock that hits you eventually.
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Yeah, this is far more true than anyone will let you admit. It's one of the deepest taboos in modernity to admit that aging is NOT a bed of roses or a graceful ascent to the peaks of wisdom and insight.pic.twitter.com/kHtDlvm7hc
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The first step to solving your problem, past 40, is to gracefully accept becoming part of the problem :D
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What are examples of lies to the middle-aged?
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"It's not too late" is the biggest catch-all one.
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