When I get older, it’s not that I’m more thorough. It’s just that I learned a checklist and can only go through that one because I have experienced all the ways it can go wrong. Just the experience of all the ways it can go wrong just overwhelms my attention and I cannot juggle anything else.
When I was younger I would try a lot of things – but as I got more XP i worked on things I can better predict.
My thesis is you are pretty much the same if not having worse-performing faculties but the experience allows you to predict things you could not in your youth. That’s why its harder to try new things, its harder to be flexible, its harder to adapt – when you have a hammer everything becomes a nail. When you’ve maxed out in XP on this narrow field it’s hard to go outside of it.
This makes it more important to build bridges, communicate, and be able to understand people better: there is a tendency to be in an Island of familiarity and we only escape it through connecting with others.
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