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The older you are the less time you have The less time you have the smaller your largest future project The smaller your largest future project the less you must know The less you must know the fewer the details that can trip you up So you can pay less attention as you age!
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This is why people gradually check out as they age. It is very rare for someone’s life to have increasing significance with age past a point. There really is a “hill” that you will be over eventually unless external factors make you increasingly significant with age like RBG
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For most people your significance is entirely a function of a) your talents b) the magnitude of your realistic ambitions. Unlike scotus justices or founders of increasingly valuable companies like Steve Jobs, few of us have lives of naturally increasing structural significance.
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