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Steven Kotler || Creativity, Skill-Mastery, and Aging
The Psychology Podcast
The Long Slow Rot Theory of Aging
The dominant theory of aging for the 20th century was this long slow rot theory. Freud wrote that don't even do tricychotherapy in anybody over 50, because their brains are too calcified. And it turns out that we didn't know this until starting in 1995 is when the data started piling up. We now know our user lives at skills. If you never stop training these skills, you get to hang on to them and even advance them far later in life than anybody thought possible.
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