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I'm 43 and I recently had a reasonably bad bike wreck. The recovery time for cuts and bruises really surprised me, compared with inline skating injuries in my 20s. I can definitely tell the body isn't working as well as it did.
I'm 56, so not that old, but age is increasingly a concern. Confirming what others have said - I am very much in touch with the teenage me and everything between. The days are long and the decades are short, indeed. Health - for me, health it isn't about living a long time, it is living with self sufficiency and minimizing pain. I am not afraid of death, but I am afraid of the years of infirmity which often precedes…
Same experience here. I can't blame the companies though.
I was essentially a workaholic for decades. I wanted to believe I had a noble mission to fulfill, aka "true believer" or "clueless" àla Gervais Principle. It took me a long time to realize this attitude was incredibly damaging and wasteful. It's tantamount to smoking or other major self-destructive behavior.
I think growing old in 1900 is diff from growing old in 2020. I don’t think these are experiences that translate well over time and place. ‘What advice would I give my younger self’ also doesn’t compute. Because that would mean that I would end up with entirely different life experience and the person giving the advice would not exist as they would have changed. In sci fi, this would be the classic causal loop/tempor…
> ‘What advice would I give my younger self’ also doesn’t compute. Because that would mean that I would end up with entirely different life experience and the person giving the advice would not exist as they would have changed. In sci fi, this would be the classic causal loop/temporal paradox time travel dilemma. Are you actually worried that speculating about your younger self might accidentally erase you from the s…
Wear a mask. Most of the “young” I see don’t seem to care, think it won’t affect them, or are fine getting the ‘Rona because they are confident they will weather it. Help other young people learn that it’s not all about them.
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> ‘What advice would I give my younger self’ also doesn’t compute. Because that would mean that I would end up with entirely different life experience and the person giving the advice would not exist as they would have changed. In sci fi, this would be the classic causal loop/temporal paradox time travel dilemma. Are you actually worried that speculating about your younger self might accidentally erase you from the s…
When asking this question, I assume the many worlds theory and giving advice to my past self would simply break off into a new branch. I’d still exist the same but his life might be different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_His_Bootstraps
+ PKD's The Skull...: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Skull_(short_story)
You will become a Conservative. I have no idea what that means other than you'd probably hate your future self so give people around you a break for their values you disagree with.
Don't wait until you past 40 years old to take care of your health. Starts now. Physical exercise becomes more important to fight against aging. Especially core exercises to take care of your back. Watch your diet and eat well because it's so much harder to lose weight when you are older. Not to mention your innards are deteriorating fast if you abuse them. Contact sports or extreme sports has super high cost when yo…
I'm 39 and still recovering from a wrist injury from trying to learn snowboarding last year. One's body does not heal quickly after a certain age -- and beyond some point, I imagine it never really recovers from certain kinds of physical damage.
I could still type, mostly, and was back at work (at EA) within a few days. The cast came off at 6 weeks, but it took years before I could do pushups without pain. I finally got the full range of motion back after several years.
Hope your injury heals fully.
No matter how you live your youth, you will probably regret it when you are older. Unless you inherit so much money that you don't have to ever work in your life. If you spend your youth having fun and enjoying your youth, then when you get to middle age you'll have wished you worked harder and saved more so you could be wealthy and comfortable. If you work your butt off in your youth and have lots of money and succe…
I'm not quite old yet (everyone would say that, right? I'm 35), and I don't regret my younger self at all: during the past 12 years I worked cumulatively 9 years and had 3 years off inbetween jobs. I managed to save up some money, as well as travel and have time for myself.
My first advice would be to not underestimate the importance of sleep. This is a key factor for both quality of life and productivity. The only way to optimize sleep is to sleep enough. Second, try to understand the power of compound interests as soon as you can. Life is long enough to invest and see the returns. Invest in yourself and in projects with long-term value, don't be seduced by shortcuts and don't be a sla…
Waking up at a regular time and restricting my sleep below what's comfortable has helped very quickly. I'm considering sleeping more, but feeling slightly groggy after sleeping 6.5 hours is way better than spending 10 hours in bed, 3 of them suffering.
Good point wrt unjust randomness, I'm terrible at embracing it. Any tips?
What's it like to be old? My boss is younger than I am and is absolutely sure he knows more about my job than I do, even though I've been doing it since before he was born and he never did it at all. People on TV keep trying to sell me stuff like Metamucil, some new kind of cane or similar silly gadget, or a scam investment, none of which I want. My grandkids can't understand why I can't read things they're holding r…
>I don't have enough money to retire but dream of it every day (See the above comment about my boss).
Software development (assuming you are are a developer) is a very well paid profession, and has been for many decades. This is the only profession where people who are 4 years out of school are often given 'senior', 'staff' titles, even at the most prestigious companies.
Have you been underpaid for a few decades or have you had some bad financial investments etc? Not sure if this is too personal but I was just curious.