Arthur Brooks

You can assemble stuff in your mind, which makes you a very good manager, a very good mentor, a very good teacher.

And if you can walk onto that curve in your mid-40s, you're just going to get better and better and better and better for the rest of your life, literally.

What people don't do is change.

They don't change their careers.

They don't change their jobs.

They don't change the emphasis.

And they try to live in the past of their fluid intelligence.

And it's a huge disaster.

When you see somebody, I'm in my 50s, when you see somebody my age who's kind of depressed and

Talking about the good old days and kind of burnt out is because that guy is trying, or woman is trying to live on her fluid intelligence curve instead of getting onto the crystallized intelligence curve.

Yeah.

And the truth is that if you have a lot of fluid intelligence, because you're trying to do a lot with your life, you're going to have it for a really long time.

It's just not going to be as acute as it was.

So the real problem is not that you lose your skills.

The real problem is that you lose your enthusiasm because of progress.

That's the real problem.

And burnout is not about getting worse at what you do.

It's liking less the things that you do.

So don't get me wrong.

I mean, you're going to be, if you want to be doing, getting better,