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The brain is surprisingly plastic...all the way into 40s and beyond. If you have the passion, will, and the discipline to learn what you want to learn then amaz
by imranq 12y ago
The brain is surprisingly plastic...all the way into 40s and beyond. If you have the passion, will, and the discipline to learn what you want to learn then amazing things can happen.
Five years is generally how long it takes to be noted as talented in something...so I guess patience is another virtue.
- werrett 12y agoI love the way this reads: > The brain is surprisingly plastic... all the way into 40s and beyond I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and it is probably factual. But it reads like 40s is "advanced". What should we consider the other 50% of our lives? I'm in my early 30s, so maybe I am sensitive. But then early 20s is not far from early 30s is not far from ...
- agumonkey 12y agoTime is not linear, what and how you learn in your life will evolve. I was a lot 'smarter' (read faster/reckless) in my early 20s, I felt creative, in flow. In the late 20s I realized how much I didn't see, history, paradigms, abstractions. Alan Kay had a quote, something like "perspective matters much than intelligence".