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I think this is a bs pseudo-science article. Instead of saying it’s an age decline maybe just say that it’s very rare to do the same thing progressively better
by mattrp 7y ago
I think this is a bs pseudo-science article. Instead of saying it’s an age decline maybe just say that it’s very rare to do the same thing progressively better for more than 20 years. Therefore instead of viewing life in progressive terms, view it in cyclical terms. At some point you have to start over at the bottom. For some reason people at age 50 develop a snobbery that prohibits this — they must keep on doing the same thing they’ve always been doing or they would rather do nothing. That’s nonsense. Ask any entrepreneur who starts over — and they’ll tell you how they’ve done it so many times it’s as natural as walking. And by the way I bet those are the same people who are still active professionally well past their 60s. Telling people they can’t do something after a certain age is just a self fulfilling prophecy of psycho-babble. People already feel this way - so what is the point of perpetuating it?