...Maybe 1% of humans live expanding-horizons lives of growing ambition, 9% hold steady ambition 18-65, but 90% lower sights slowly to grave
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...simplest explanation is success compounding. Winners at every life stage increase ambitions. Break-evens hold steady. Losers lower sights
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A really important question! Can be tricky to figure out which aspects of shrinking are real limitations vs coming from surrounding culture.
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Would you really put adult constraints at just 20%? I'd have thought that'd be higher, especially if there are children involved
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See my newer baby-equivalant ambitions thread for resolution of that problemhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/892787498572578816 …
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I wonder if the "learning limits" aspect is just exhaustion from pushing boundaries for so long rather than finding a hard limit?
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I suspect that's a self-serving rationalization for most. The idea that you're pushing boundaries is a vanity to be skeptical of
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The 60% is whatevs. The young say it, but the old mean it.
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Let's call it the Ecclesiastes Syndrome.
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I don't follow
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