Our brains are shrinking also sounds like the title of a pulp horror movie. The fact that it’s a fact feels like we’re in the horror movie 🧟♀️ beautifully written
I suddenly feel less alone for feeling that I am relatively slower when it comes to grasping a problem statement and also feel validated because I too have become really smart and more efficient in reaching to the solution or get across my point. However I have embraced mediocrity after 32 years of wanting to be extraordinary that the fact I read 1 book/month this year makes me feel super smart and less dumber than before . I don’t feel any desire to be any more smarter 😂
Thank you for this validation! I was constantly questioning myself and now some things make more sense. I will take the wisdom and try to adapt to the mushiness of my brain going softer that mid 30s is bringing.
“So perhaps it is not the case that we are getting dumber, we are just allowing ourselves to accept how ignorant we are. So even as our brains are shrinking, we acknowledge our limitations and at most it does make us all sound very Socratic.”
Lately I’ve been ruminating about my past self (late teens to early twenties) and thought that even if I was not the most confident person ever, I really believed that I could do a lot of things. But now, I feel so under confident and low in self esteem. While the above lines gave me some answers to my questions, I do wonder whether knowing about my limitations has made me fear my actions more (and not be the best possible version of myself ?) or are somehow protecting me from the varied decisions I might’ve made or will make.
(Hope this makes sense, my writing is not that good 😅)
Our brains are shrinking also sounds like the title of a pulp horror movie. The fact that it’s a fact feels like we’re in the horror movie 🧟♀️ beautifully written
The score is the sound of traffic and metro drilling
I suddenly feel less alone for feeling that I am relatively slower when it comes to grasping a problem statement and also feel validated because I too have become really smart and more efficient in reaching to the solution or get across my point. However I have embraced mediocrity after 32 years of wanting to be extraordinary that the fact I read 1 book/month this year makes me feel super smart and less dumber than before . I don’t feel any desire to be any more smarter 😂
Listen, I don’t even read one book a month and I think we need to take the pressure off 😅
Thank you for this validation! I was constantly questioning myself and now some things make more sense. I will take the wisdom and try to adapt to the mushiness of my brain going softer that mid 30s is bringing.
Yes! Embrace your brain’s ability for abstract thinking in your thirties.
“So perhaps it is not the case that we are getting dumber, we are just allowing ourselves to accept how ignorant we are. So even as our brains are shrinking, we acknowledge our limitations and at most it does make us all sound very Socratic.”
Lately I’ve been ruminating about my past self (late teens to early twenties) and thought that even if I was not the most confident person ever, I really believed that I could do a lot of things. But now, I feel so under confident and low in self esteem. While the above lines gave me some answers to my questions, I do wonder whether knowing about my limitations has made me fear my actions more (and not be the best possible version of myself ?) or are somehow protecting me from the varied decisions I might’ve made or will make.
(Hope this makes sense, my writing is not that good 😅)
It makes sense! I get what you’re saying and your anxieties about your limitations. But that allows you to move on and try something else perhaps?