Love your honesty and openness (like always 😬)! This is actually something I realised when watching my kids struggle for weeks and months to figure out a new skill that feels completely normal for me as an adult, like standing up or crawling: I think as adults we forget how hard it is to learn something completely new. At some point in our life we stop learning new things and move to expanding expertise on topics we already know a lot about. That’s much easier. So we just assume something new works after 2 or 5 attempts as well and get frustrated if it doesn’t.
I don’t know when I last put the equivalent of 2 months every day most of my hours into learning something completely new (that’s how long my daughter needed to move from standing on all 4 to crawling).
Healthy perspective. It's all balancing inputs and optimizing for outputs.
I'm your age and while there are some parts of that equation that get harder with age, I think I'm getting better at prioritizing and predicting outcomes better each year. So the "wrong side of 40" does have its perks.
Thank you for sharing this journey of introspection you're on. I've found your last few entries in particular, resonating deeply. Can't wait for Wednesday!
Love your honesty and openness (like always 😬)! This is actually something I realised when watching my kids struggle for weeks and months to figure out a new skill that feels completely normal for me as an adult, like standing up or crawling: I think as adults we forget how hard it is to learn something completely new. At some point in our life we stop learning new things and move to expanding expertise on topics we already know a lot about. That’s much easier. So we just assume something new works after 2 or 5 attempts as well and get frustrated if it doesn’t.
I don’t know when I last put the equivalent of 2 months every day most of my hours into learning something completely new (that’s how long my daughter needed to move from standing on all 4 to crawling).
Healthy perspective. It's all balancing inputs and optimizing for outputs.
I'm your age and while there are some parts of that equation that get harder with age, I think I'm getting better at prioritizing and predicting outcomes better each year. So the "wrong side of 40" does have its perks.
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Thank you for sharing this journey of introspection you're on. I've found your last few entries in particular, resonating deeply. Can't wait for Wednesday!