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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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4/ You have also found good ways to tell your stories through trial and error. These are not signs of wisdom but narrative polishing.
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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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8/ Length is easier. You go from long-winded to aphoristic length in things you say largely due to falling cognitive endurance.
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9/ Pithiness, or insight density: this does NOT change much over life. Any change is due to rare, sharp staircase-like jumps in awareness
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10/ Some people go through life never leveling-up this way. Their insight compression ratio is about the same at 22 as at 42.
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11/ Insight compression ratio is how much raw experience/learning (the boring story told with low self-awareness) can be compressed
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12/ A boring tale of a boring vacation told with the obligatory accompanying boring photos has compression ratio ~3 or 4 maybe
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13/ OTOH, a truly thoughtful person with a few staircase jumps under belt might tell the story of a complex project with 10:1 compression
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14/ So appearance of wisdom is mostly high-EQ acting accompanied by unchanged pithiness talking that is aphoristic because of low endurance
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16/ These days I tweet more, post short things on Facebook more. Longer blog posts are rarer, book ideas seem like impossible mountains.
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17/ But I have NOT gotten pithier. My tweets have about the same compression ratio as my 4000 word blog posts. Last staircase jump was ~2006
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