We always talk about things that get worse with #Aging - but what about the things that get better? For example I feel that people become more confident and able to make faster decisions, especially about what they like or want to do. Can you think of anything else that improves with aging?
Trying to get ideas for a research fellowship proposal :)
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Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore
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in reply to El Duvelle • • •Being more relaxed about most things.
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in reply to El Duvelle • • •Gloria Steinem has repeatedly said that casting off her sexual drive post-menopause helped her return to who she was as a child before she had to take on the role of "woman". (Not giving up on enjoying sex, but freedom from that intense drive). I wouldn't say I particularly adhere to "woman" but I do remember being happier in myself before the mess of hormones started, so I'm looking forward to that!
(Quote in the "on Aging" segment, starting at 09:20ish: freshairarchive.org/guests/glo… )
Steinem, Gloria
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in reply to El Duvelle • • •This is a really fun spec fiction exploration of that question.
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2005 novel by John Scalzi
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in reply to El Duvelle • • •Maior empatia e paciência: experiências vividas ajudam a entender as lutas alheias.
Visão de contexto: você percebe que "isso também vai passar" e que os problemas raramente são o fim do mundo.
Apreciação pelo presente: com a consciência da finitude, há uma maior valorização dos momentos simples.
Orgulho da própria história: as cicatrizes e conquistas formam uma narrativa da qual você é o autor.
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By 25, I had already lost half my memory.
By 40, I was losing my mobility.
I can no longer cook or clean for myself. I can’t garden, even a trip to the dinning room is a hike too far, when I used to walk two hours a day to relax, then cook, and write!
The only good thing is I am a few decades past escaping abusers.
Yet, so many people here are stuck in their childhoods, or early adult hood (dementia) that they insist it was a wonderful time.
The few memories I have are so horrific, that I sometimes have nightmares when they insist it was a wonderful time.
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in reply to El Duvelle • • •knowing what I'm really bad at, so I can stop wasting my time trying to do those things! And focus on what I actually enjoy and am good at.
Looking back over my life and realising that I changed, and that all the ways I've been were true to myself, that changing is inevitable and not an invalidation of what I used to be.
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in reply to El Duvelle • • •I remember as a young fella being endlessly frustrated by terminology: why is the seven semitone interval called a "fifth", why is this noun "feminine", etc etc, and that being enough to prevent me from continuing to work to understand it.
Whereas these days I'm more able to just say "okay so this terminology doesn't make sense to me *yet* but I'll suspend my concerns until I've learned more about the historical context" or just "strange name but that's what people call it and if I want to read / talk to people about this stuff I'd better learn the words".
Thinking about it, a watershed moment might have been finding a calculus textbook which introduced differential ("∫ f(x) dx") notation with a little historical background and then saying it was an ugly notation but that's what everyone settled on, so that's what we're using too, get used to it. That was enough to get me through calculus, anyway.
This is probably just as well since I've been doing some biology work recently and half of everything is named after a latin word for what the thing looked like on
... Show more...I remember as a young fella being endlessly frustrated by terminology: why is the seven semitone interval called a "fifth", why is this noun "feminine", etc etc, and that being enough to prevent me from continuing to work to understand it.
Whereas these days I'm more able to just say "okay so this terminology doesn't make sense to me *yet* but I'll suspend my concerns until I've learned more about the historical context" or just "strange name but that's what people call it and if I want to read / talk to people about this stuff I'd better learn the words".
Thinking about it, a watershed moment might have been finding a calculus textbook which introduced differential ("∫ f(x) dx") notation with a little historical background and then saying it was an ugly notation but that's what everyone settled on, so that's what we're using too, get used to it. That was enough to get me through calculus, anyway.
This is probably just as well since I've been doing some biology work recently and half of everything is named after a latin word for what the thing looked like on a prepared microscope slide rather than anything to do with what it does.
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