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Paradoxically, emotional growth is held back by one's strengths, not their weaknesses. Lots of bright students have zero patience and have never learned how to cope with failure. Perhaps typically privileged people, as many men are, don't deal well with things like their growing physical frailty as they age and react to that by refusing to acknowledge any weaknesses in other areas, such as their knowledge base or log…
I love how you make this a gendered issue. Well done, identity politician.
I didn't make it a gendered issue. I was replying to a statement by someone else who characterized older men as especially frequently guilty of this. I simply tried to provide a plausible explanation for their observation based on my understanding of how life works.