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<blockquote data-quote="Aberzanzorax" data-source="post: 4767968" data-attributes="member: 64209"><p>I get it, too.</p><p> </p><p>The world changes, but there's a part of life that involves finding one's place in it, and setting down "roots".</p><p> </p><p>These roots don't have to be a physical place, and in fact, the physical place, if any, is more of a symptoms of the "mental" or "metaphysical" roots.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Sometimes it is good to be "left behind" with the times of yesteryear. I think it is natural.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Interestingly, (this may seem tangetial, but I don't think it is) intelligence works in much this way.</p><p> </p><p>In one theory (if memory serves, it is Raymond and Cattell's theory.) intelligence is divided into two types: fluid and crystaline. Fluid intelligence is about learning, adapting and discovering. Crystalline intelligence is wrote knowledge (including facts but also schemas on how to do things, like interact at a party or in the officeplace or ride a bicycle)</p><p> </p><p>My three year old son has likely 90% fluid intelligence (soaks up new words like a sponge, learns dozens of new things every day) and 10% Crystalline intelligence: he is primed to learn, but doesn't know much.</p><p> </p><p>As we age, the ratio shifts more and more, eventually we have far, far more crystalline intelligence (think the elderly here). This group is less adaptable, in part because of biological factors but also because these people have ways of doing things. They've learned how, and it is more work to learn a new way when the other way works just fine.</p><p> </p><p>So, what I'm saying is that, not only is this a natural thing, it is likely a destined biological/psychological thing.</p><p> </p><p>Embrace it and enjoy it, and fight it when it suits you. That's my advice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Aberzanzorax, post: 4767968, member: 64209"] I get it, too. The world changes, but there's a part of life that involves finding one's place in it, and setting down "roots". These roots don't have to be a physical place, and in fact, the physical place, if any, is more of a symptoms of the "mental" or "metaphysical" roots. Sometimes it is good to be "left behind" with the times of yesteryear. I think it is natural. Interestingly, (this may seem tangetial, but I don't think it is) intelligence works in much this way. In one theory (if memory serves, it is Raymond and Cattell's theory.) intelligence is divided into two types: fluid and crystaline. Fluid intelligence is about learning, adapting and discovering. Crystalline intelligence is wrote knowledge (including facts but also schemas on how to do things, like interact at a party or in the officeplace or ride a bicycle) My three year old son has likely 90% fluid intelligence (soaks up new words like a sponge, learns dozens of new things every day) and 10% Crystalline intelligence: he is primed to learn, but doesn't know much. As we age, the ratio shifts more and more, eventually we have far, far more crystalline intelligence (think the elderly here). This group is less adaptable, in part because of biological factors but also because these people have ways of doing things. They've learned how, and it is more work to learn a new way when the other way works just fine. So, what I'm saying is that, not only is this a natural thing, it is likely a destined biological/psychological thing. Embrace it and enjoy it, and fight it when it suits you. That's my advice. [/QUOTE]
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