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Age and intellectual laziness (pg. 2)
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| KilldaDJ |
| i was thinking that i am too lazy to reply to this thread but then had to just to make that point. |
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| Ian |
| I'm also seeking out new sports and want to learn how to play about 4 currently. I think that we evolve in taste but I don't believe we get lazier per se |
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| Lilith |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
I find that as I get older I am less likely to take on tasks that involve learning lots of new concepts or information, and I generally use less energy on reconsidering my settled opinions or articulating to any great length my reasons for disagreeing with a position on an issue.
Anyone else find this to be true for yourself? |
What I've found when I was teaching and coaching people is that some older people tend to have a lot of confidence issues when it comes to new things. Socially in a group or team environment they're unsure of where they fit in and a good part of that is that long term, pre-existing concepts sometimes have to be broken down will take longer.
Older people spend 'X' amount of years figuring things out, understand consequences better, expectations of others and have it down pat, whereas younger people have confidence and ambition, but effectively know very little in terms of results and other peoples expectations.
Laziness is generally a sign of boredom or complacency in a current state, being presented with something new should elicit some kind of reaction, if they don't react its more than likely disinterest. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lilith
What I've found when I was teaching and coaching people is that |
Whoa, whoa. Just because you had a whistle and weren't afraid to use it doesn't give you rights to a title. :p |
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| Lira |
Nah, I really can't relate to this. If anything, I'm quite the opposite: the older I get, the more playful and critic I become with ideas... and I get frustrated by the fact that I've had to narrow down my readings a bit :(
ps.: You're not old, Jive, you're depressed and in a dier need of psychologist.
pps.: No, that wasn't a typo. It's really a need that could well die in the future. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| All great art and religion likely comes from a place of depression- even if it is rooted in the need to extinguish oneself of it; Especially the need to purge. I am not going to pontificate slychologically toward you, JBJ, but perhaps it is time that you re-directed your malaise toward as many creative pursuits as possible. I think that it is incumbent upon anyone with even a touch of inspiration in them to sort of create their very own basis of knowledge, even if it is fictional. Especially if it is fictional. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
All great art and religion likely comes from a place of depression- even if it is rooted in the need to extinguish oneself of it; Especially the need to purge. I am not going to pontificate slychologically toward you, JBJ, but perhaps it is time that you re-directed your malaise toward as many creative pursuits as possible. I think that it is incumbent upon anyone with even a touch of inspiration in them to sort of create their very own basis of knowledge, even if it is fictional. Especially if it is fictional. |
I wouldn't for a second even try to disagree with you there. However, instead of living a creative/destructive sort of depression that propels geniuses to create/destroy great ideas, JiveBoJingles is becoming more and more like Droopy, and you said that yourself. That's why I reckon he could need just some temporary help. It's hard to do anything when you live a morose and sullen existence.
We need less static and more whiny/cranky Jive! |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
I wouldn't for a second even try to disagree with you there. However, instead of living a creative/destructive sort of depression that propels geniuses to create/destroy great ideas, JiveBoJingles is becoming more and more like Droopy, and you said that yourself. That's why I reckon he could need just some temporary help. It's hard to do anything when you live a morose and sullen existence.
We need less static and more whiny/cranky Jive! |
Well, depression is misdirected anger. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
Yeah, it's inward anger, though I'm sure Lira has already deducted that from the way the words are put together:
dep- ression
ag- ression
In any case, yeah, he can be pretty pitiful. And I think the comparison was more toward Eeyore than Droopy. "Thanks for noticin'..." :p
I know you are no fan of Nietzsche, Lira, but really, what he had to say about self-loathing and nihilism and depression has really, really resonated with me. It is the times that you feel ing utterly low and that there is nothing worth living for that give meaning to the things we take for ourselves in life to pull us out of them. Doubtful Nietzsche was the first to formally ruminate on a balanced lifestyle of polar dispositions, but it's true- to have any sort of established and real temperament that lasts through one's life and is in the least bit empowering, you have to have experienced the distinct feeling that you have lost it all. |
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| Silky Johnson |
| Uh, I'm the one who called him Eeyore. Fags. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
In any case, yeah, he can be pretty pitiful. |
I'd like to backpedal a bit and say that I quite like Brian and always find his posts interesting. I can be quite pitiful, myself, and though I think he is a far more knowledgabe person than myself, I also believe he could do a lot of interesting things in life if he simply put his mind to them. I have a lot of hope that he can put himself to great use, I just wish that he would not constantly try to reprimand himself for his proclivities and instead just suck it all up for a while and kick the habit. :p
Also, he should seek beatings once in a while. It would do him a lot of good. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
Uh, I'm the one who called him Eeyore. Fags. |
Shut the up. |
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