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The Anxiety Files, Vol. 1: Courage and Avoidance

Bewildered

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The Mirror Image of Neotony

In other animals, there's an abrupt cut off of learning and the curiosity of babyhood that comes when they hit like puberty. We never hit the point where the brain stops maturing unless we stop learning unless we stop having new experience. So is there a mirror image thing here then with the making the world bigger in the neotony and the continuous learning? Is that a mirror image analogy to the cycle of the world becoming smaller and smaller if we don't because it's like, what's the opposite of learning? It's like every day. Yeah, you're absolutely right. You can actually you can start to use curiosity and as a compulsion almost to lean into discomfort.

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