Crystallized knowledge is a thing. Others call it wisdom. You watch your cognitive abilities decline as you age, thinking this what downhill slope is what old

Crystallized knowledge is a thing. Others call it wisdom. You watch your cognitive abilities decline as you age, thinking this what downhill slope is what old age inevitably brings, then suddenly notice things you never understood become perfectly obvious. Human behaviour you thought came from nowhere becomes predictable. Eventually you realise this has been happening all your life and you didn't notice it. Your ability to absorb me languages came and went without you ever realising it. In your youth shaped the language your generation would use and the music they liked, and then you stopped doing that without ever wondering why. In your young adult life your cohort would try thousands different experiments. Most would fail. A few would reshape society you live in, in ways you at the age of 10 couldn't have dreamed of. I'm not sure what the mechanism behind wisdom is. I suspect your ability to reason didn't diminish overly, but your ability to absorb me information does. The net result is you get to focus the reasoning ability on what you've already learnt, without noise from the present servicing as a distraction. The result is crystallized knowledge. It must be pretty handy, given the number of leaders we have that are over 60.