Why Do People (Usually) Learn Less as They Get Older? - Scott H Young
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Why Do People (Usually) Learn Less as They Get Older? - Scott H Young
Because a person’s ability to extract real enjoyment out of the gift declines with their age. This happens for exactly the same reason your own ability to convert money into enjoyable experiences diminishes after you get past a certain age.
from Die With Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins
- One takeaway from this is that no age has a monopoly on insight, and different levels of experience offer different kinds of lessons. Vishal Khandelwal recently wrote that old guys don’t understand tech, but young guys don’t understand risk. Another way to put it is: everyone has something to teach.
from Experts From a World That No Longer Exists · Collaborative Fund by collaborativefund.com
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- There's a myth that learning is for young people. But as the proverb says, “It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.” The middle years are great, great learning years. Even the years past the middle years. I took on a new job after my 77th birthday — and I'm still learning.
Learn all your life. Learn from your failures. Learn from your... See morefrom "Personal Renewal" by James Clear
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