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My mentor used to say that no big change happens when you age, you have the same thoughts and desires as you did when you were a child and you wouldn't remember
by pazimzadeh 11y ago
My mentor used to say that no big change happens when you age, you have the same thoughts and desires as you did when you were a child and you wouldn't remember you were old if various body parts didn't hurt periodically.
- 2muchcoffeeman 11y agoYour capacity for learning new physical skills seriously diminishes. This seems to happen in your late 20s early 30s. If you don't develop the physical conditioning or body awareness as a child, there are things you may never be able to learn.
- seren 11y agoThis is certainly true, but observing some of my peers, I now have the distinct feeling that the desire to learn new things, both physically and intellectually, diminishes much more quickly that the actual ability.
- iamflimflam1 11y agoI think some of this comes down to the fact that after a long time working you see what look like the same problems appearing and being solved, and then they appear again and a new solution comes along, and then again and again... It may partly be a failure of pattern recognition, where the problem being solved seems to be similar to what has been done before, but actually it is different enough that a new solution is warranted. Or it may be frustration at the fact that the problem was never really solved in the first place. Or it could be you look at a solution and think, this is just like a previous solution with some minor changes, nothing new to learn.
- PepeGomez 11y agoWhat kind of skills?
- ourmandave 11y agoNunchuk skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills...
- 2muchcoffeeman 11y agoMy personal interests at the moment are handstands and improving flexibility.
- tvmalsv 11y agoI was going to say much the same. As I have gotten older (46yo currently), I've come to realize that my thoughts are generally the same as when I was a teenager. It was a rather enlightening moment when I discovered it was true for a great many people that I would consider old. Sure, I know more things, but forgotten others. I like to think the former outnumber the latter. Perhaps I'm wiser. Perhaps not. But, for the most part, I still have the same thoughts as before, be they wonder, delight, dirty, sad. Hopefully I will express the correct ones at the proper times, but probably won't. I found it fascinating when I realized that most others are in the same boat. The guy standing next to me at the bank might be 73 but he is obviously enthralled with the pretty teller behind the window, and I'm sure that if I told him a dirty joke, or even one that disparages someone's race, gender, or religion, we would both laugh because we are too old to care about political correctness, and besides, we are thinking like the teenagers we feel we are, anyway. And we'll laugh without guilt because we understand that a joke can be funny and still not lower our respect of those that resemble the characters in our jokes, and I hope others are telling equally funny jokes with characters bearing a striking resemblance to myself.
- edanm 11y agoI think it's a pretty common experience for people, as they age, to have something akin to the "impostor syndrome" and not really feel that they are older. I'm only 30, but I certainly don't feel much different than at, say, 20, except for life situation.
- StavrosK 11y agoThe problem is the idea that you should feel older. You somehow think you should feel differently, and you don't, so you think you're an impostor.
- cylinder 11y agoI stopped feeling very different from year to year after age 25. I'm now 30 and of course I change, but not dramatically every year. The prefrontal cortex doesn't fully form until 25.