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I 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 ...




Time 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".




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