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Age and intellectual laziness
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| 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? |
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| -FSP- |
| Maybe it's not laziness, it's just some ideas are just air tight good, and cannot be broken apart. |
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| Meat187 |
| I'm too old to think about this thread. :o |
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| LoveHate |
| The only real wisdom is knowing you know nothing |
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| SYSTEM-J |
To a certain extent. I am less likely to be interested in learning entirely new sports or hobbies because I don't want to go through the entire learning process again. That's also why I'm never going to make any music. I spent years practising writing and now if I have an idea I can usually realise it in writing. I try to make music and cannot just actualise my ideas, and I'm not willing to be the struggling amateur again and go through the learning process.
But on the other hand, I feel less continuous as an intellectual entity than ever before. I try and look back at myself in the past and see how far back I could go and still agree with myself. Doesn't go back very far for many subjects. So I definitely don't feel set in my intellectual ways. |
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| EddieZilker |
| Oddly, no. I find that I'll take on new things, like the acquisition of Blender (3D graphics program) about three years ago, quite eagerly. Generally, I enjoy any opportunity to learn. I am more stubborn regarding my views but it's not because of any intellectual deceit or stupidity. |
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| Jake Benson |
| 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? |
The plasticity and malleability of your neural wiring might be attenuating. I think it's common as you age that you become accustomed to a more conventional pattern. But I don't think this is necessarily a good thing. It could mean that you're not being exposed to a multifarious environment, making your experiences are more perfunctory.
I would suggest if you're experiencing ennui to start shocking your brain by doing things you wouldn't normally want to do: like take a vacation somewhere, trying something new to eat, say something bold in public you wouldn't normally dare to say, take a class at a local college, get drunk then film yourself throwing up while throwing up then put it on youtube and become famous.
Are you satisfied with not caring to learn anything new? Or do you find this onerous? Maybe you want to move to a new city altogether. Do you have a girlfriend? If so, is she starting to bore you?
/studying way too much for the GREs ...sorry these vocab words are invading my brain |
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| igottaknow |
| 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? |
becoming a conservative republican speeds up the process |
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| w_ashley |
I'm actually the opposite, the more time that goes on the more I feel compelled to learn new things and ways of seeing the world.
Although I do have a foundation that is quite fundamental, it is so overgrown and protected the kernal is really very much a red button contigency reserve in a candy playland of modes of living. Luckily I've functionally developed enough to pretty much sustain any situation - as far as knowledge is concerned there is a infinite potential, but whenever you expose yourself to new environments, it is undoubted you will recognize you are learning as opposed to using wired knowledge and skills.
I have immense projects that have steep knowledge curves - they will likely not be finished in the forseeable future (next 10-20 years) so I really have no choice but to learn while engaged in my passtime projects - 90+% of my time. (even my dreams are part of my knowledge curve since I have deja vus and forsights as well as interpretations of my dreams that fall into my waking hours -eg technology in my dreams that doesn't exist yet, or people doing things I have never seen, then trying to rationalize them into the real)
My hobbies include music, technology, nature, history, culture exercise.
This runs the gammut of the arts and sciences so I'm pretty much only not learning when government agents kidnap me. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| Hahaha, excellent. |
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| woscar |
| It's quite the opposite for me, actually. As a matter of fact, I'm going back to school next year and get a degree in Philosophy. :p |
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| Esiotrat |
| quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
Oddly, no. I find that I'll take on new things, like the acquisition of Blender (3D graphics program) about three years ago, quite eagerly. Generally, I enjoy any opportunity to learn. I am more stubborn regarding my views but it's not because of any intellectual deceit or stupidity. |
+1
I am too hungry and curious to ever be too lazy to learn. |
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