I'm getting curious about psychology of shrinking horizons with age. 20% is learning limits, 20% adulting constraints, but 60% = mystery...
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...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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...so if you struggle to raise ambitions for next life stage, it likely means you've subconsciously assessed last to be break-even at best
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...it's cognitive Darwinism. Ambition today is best understood as trying to increase share of meme-pool, write yourself into grand narrative
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...which means lowering ambitions is kinda the memetic equivalent of deciding not to have more kids (and most remain memetically childless)
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