Steven Kotler
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3 recordings
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first heard May 2026
last heard 12 Jun
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ageism you can like people are like oh you're too old to do that shit like we geezer each other right and it's crazy becca levy at yale has done tons of work on ageism and the stereotype of aging and it's incredibly detrimental um in fact i would you could go so far as literally we are killing older adults with how we talk about them so um that is really really clear
societies where there's no ageism, there's also cross-generational friendships.
So the old are passing along knowledge, the young, this is really, this is a natural part of brain development.
So he is not wrong.
We do shift from fluid intelligence into crystallized intelligence.
That transition does happen.
But, but, but, but, but, a bunch of the skills that we thought declined over time, like the fluid intelligence skills that we thought went away, no, it turns out that's not true at all.
We get actually new levels of intelligence and creativity in our 50s, right?
So that's not actually true.
There's certain things.
The article I like best, Martin Seligman from Penn and Scott Barry Kaufman wrote a great article on creativity over time where they talk about what goes away
from creativity and what stays or comes on.
And the list of like what comes on and stays is much longer than what goes away.
Now there's stuff that does go away.
So the question you've got to now ask is, is it permanent?
Is this real?
Or have we just not figured out how to train it?
So let me give you an example.
Adam Ghazali is a friend of mine.
He's on my board.
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