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1/ Screw it, it's a tweetstormy Saturday. Let's do another one: do you get wiser with age? Preview of answer: not necessarily, but maybe.
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2/ What is perceived as "wisdom" is actually an incredibly shallow behavior: production of pithy, aphoristic insight from a high-EQ persona
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3/ The easy part first: you get better at reading emotional context with age, have more anecodata appropriate for different contexts.
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5/ About 99% of appearing sage is merely high-EQ appropriate affect and taming of knee-jerk responses. It's acting better, mellowing out.
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6/ The evidence of your life and the scarred-over screwed-upness suggests that any sageness in affect is not inner light shining through
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