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>>"After 50 one begins to recognise in oneself a growing resistance to change, if only because it so often nullifies years of hard-won training"

This really struck home to me. It's true: we teach ourselves life hacks and gradually they become redundant as different life skills are needed.

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But also I'd like to think we get better at distinguishing between good changes and bad changes. We should resist the bad changes, or at least explain ad nauseam to the kids that their proposed change a) has been tried before and was crap, or b) is the beginning of the end, or c) is against the natural order of things. ;)

Yes, you are perfectly right, but sometimes it is overwhelming/tiring, the bad changes are becoming so common (and supported/accepted by so many people) that "fighting" against them appears to be (and very probably it actually is anyway) completely void of any relevance.

Over time I've gotten better at letting others fail. I failed a lot during my career, especially when I was young, and it seems to have worked out for me.

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