Aging is like scaling. You have to re-solve every significant life problem every 10 years. Very annoying.
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The anti-aliasing is particularly exhausting since you don’t really get this till you’re 40. So when you grumbletweet about it, 20s/30s people earnestly give you what the think is lifetime guarantee advice you somehow miraculously missed learning.
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If you’re 40+ and habits you developed I early 20s still work for you, I’ve got some grim news for you: somehow you’ve managed to stay protected enough you haven’t grown. It’s not an eternal truth you’ve stumbled upon, it’s arrested development.
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Example: Productivity. In your 20s is largely a motivation problem. You’re under- or overmotivated. Fix that with One Weird Trick and raw energy will get you Young Buck wins. In your 30s it’s a skills problem. Fix with a system or two and you’re good. 40s: It’s a taste problem
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Example 2: Meaning In your 20s, it’s usually a self-awareness and relationships problem. Look inwards, look inbetween. Meaning: Done. In your 30s, it is largely an IQ-EQ problem. You just think-feel your way through. In 40s, it appears to turn into an energy problem afaict
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Replying to @vgr
What if my One Simple Trick is that there is no simple trick but only a meta-process of confronting each stage of development knowingly?
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That’s a bad trick. The worst trick.
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