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I've definitely found that my attention span has shortened, but I wonder if I shouldn't attribute at least some of that to my age (50 now). I could concentrate

I've definitely found that my attention span has shortened, but I wonder if I shouldn't attribute at least some of that to my age (50 now). I could concentrate a lot longer when I was younger, maybe it's normal to lose some ability to concentrate like losing eyesight and hearing?

OfSanguineFire 3y ago
In his autobiography, the linguist R.M.W. Dixon (who could concentrate at least well enough to produce great scholarship into old age) suggested that the break was puberty. He wished he could go back to that halcyon time of boyhood before a redblooded man would constantly find his thoughts turning to sex. No later advance in years was as clearly harmful as that.