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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Oct 2019
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      Empirically people don’t really seem to grow much after 40. Maybe 1 in 10 will adopt a truly different mindset. Maybe 1 in 100 will develop a new life-shaping ability (not a hobby). Maybe 1 in 1000 will take on a fundamentally leveled-up Act 2 that will top Act 1.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Oct 2019
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      This sounds like death to Americans raised on memetically modified high gritcose hustleporn syrup. I think the lack of visible growth after 40 for the vast majority is a good thing. It means growth has gone past healthy solipsism horizon. They’re living life on their own terms.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Oct 2019
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      I think what breaks is not the ability to learn but the ability to care about what other people think about you (which is of course predicated on the ability to maintain the delusion that they’re thinking about you at all).

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Oct 2019
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      Of the 15% who continue publicly legible growth, maybe 1% are growing in a generative way, while 14% are in arrested development, stuck in Act 1 ruts. ~85% stop visibly growing. Of this, 80% stop growing, period. But 5% are in “dark growth” visible+legible mostly to themselves

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Oct 2019
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      Of that 5%, the dark growth is visible to intimates in most cases, but rarely legible. So most intimate relationships are likelier to grow apart than grow together. Dem’s the odds. Divergence is the default, not convergence.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Oct 2019
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      It’s mostly cordial acceptance of growing mutual inscrutability though, rather than growing stress. Otherwise divorce rates would be far higher, and far fewer friendships would last as long as they do. That’s how/why loneliness increases with age, *without* social unraveling

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Oct 2019
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      I have this growing impatience with the framing of the 40+ life experience as “slowly failing youth” unless you’re in the minority that stays on an obvious extension of the under-40 script. It’s like this annoying fog obscuring the truly interesting life-stage challenges.

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Oct 2019
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          Imagine if at 30 you had 16 year olds constantly asking you about what grade you got on the test, taking your reticence to mean you got a bad grade because they don’t get that school ends and there’s a different life beyond, and judging/shaming you loudly for not studying harder

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Oct 2019
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          That’s kinda what 40+ life can feel like except that a) most people don’t even notice that there IS a different life stage b) a lot of people actually get confused and start thinking they should be actually taking tests and worrying about grades like they’re still in school

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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Oct 2019
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          For the record, with “dark growth” I’m not talking about traditional later life foci like parenting and grand parenting and community service. That’s fulfillment rather than dark growth. Nice if that’s what you want and get, but if that’s were it, later life would frankly be hell

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