People who tend to be most disappointed with their lives after 70 and the people who have the most success early in their life. The book is based around this idea that there's two intelligence curves. In the early part of your life, you have an abundance of what social psychologists call fluid intelligence. You get much better at doing what you're doing now because just raw horsepower, 10,000 hours of practice can do it.

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