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In many ways, this is the closest that I felt to being an adult. I just didn’t expect this is what adulthood would feel like On the narrowing of the imagination: I reckon it’s partially entropy, it’s not like we can avoid it, we cant be open minded forever, we all have a limited lifespan. But that doesn’t mean things have to come to an end, and that doesn’t mean we don’t get a fighting chance - if anything we narrow on things that don’t matter and expand on things that do

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Narrowing can also be characterized as focus. Unchecked imagination is exciting and free, but the lack of boundaries also makes its impractical due its vastness in many cases. Maturity gives you the ability to solve within boundaries, which is a very different kind of creativity and more useful within the context of the roles you choose to take on as you mature. The journey to that point also gives you insight and the ability to recognize when others still have that borderless view, which you should celebrate and support. That's one of the wonders of the process and inherent power of generational transfers of information and learning.

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It feels like our models begin to overweight prior learnings and experiences naturally, very hard to overwrite the weights

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there's a cool neuro-scientific explanation with evolutionary roots for this, which goes something like: uncertainty is metabolically costly for the mind to deal with, and so the brain actively predicts much of experience from what it has learned from the past (memory); so it can save energy for when it's really needed (like in situations of stress and danger) the older you become, the more rigid these predictive patterns become - you become experientially blind (sometimes literally) to things happening around you, and resort to interpreting evermore habitually tried to catch this more elaborately here gillesdc.com/brain/prediction

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I believe instead that the social order is what makes us lose our imagination. We believe we have become adults, but in the end what does it mean to be adults if not to always be ourselves but with a huge baggage of information dictated only by a code written by other adults. But fortunately this code has not worked for everyone, otherwise we would not have everything that was the fruit of pure imagination.

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Narrowing of the imagination is an efficiency hack.

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Imagination can come out with abandon,but we need restraint to make it happen

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Beautifully said July Adulthood often surprises us with its complexities and contradictions. I love how you've acknowledged the inevitability of entropy, yet refused to surrender to it. By focusing on what truly matters and letting go of the rest, we can create a sense of purpose and direction. It's a reminder that growth and expansion are possible even as our horizons narrow in other ways🫡

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True, I do feel less creative and more stuck then I was younger. I am better at being acting on being creative but imagining new things became harder. I guess my world also became smaller?

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words! 💯🫡

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Psylocybin mushrooms fixes this.

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Wow that hit home. Hell of a quote. Thank you for sharing 100 $DEGEN

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I'd say we're rather going off the deep end. As time goes on, we become more and more aware of ourselves and the guidelines we're following.

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Crazy to think about but true. I don’t think this really hit me till my mid 30’s, gaining a very specific expertise which has worked out great for my science career. It’s still fun to expand the mind, for me learning web3 and onchain life was this, also experiencing a project from the inside.

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Adulting hits hard sometimes tho, i be wishing i want my imagination back and not worry about a thing

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