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What worries you about getting older?

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Question Which thinking habit do you wish you could break? Craft & work
I’ve a deplorable tendency to become entrenched in my own prejudices: If I dislike an artist, an art form, or an idea (jazz, ballet, certain kinds of fiction) it is extremely difficult to get me to change my mind, and all evidence presented to the contrary will be discarded and very likely mocked. Of course, nobody suffers but me.
Recorded Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 26 August 2017 source ↗
Question Whose work do you read even when you disagree with them? Attention & the world
I often hate-read the Daily Mail. It’s the worst of media and the worst of mankind distilled into one publication and in some ways it feels a moral duty to be familiar with it. Too often we all bolt ourselves into an echo chamber, which I think lacks courage, and can lead to a kind of intellectual conceitedness.
Recorded Sean Illing, Vox, “9 questions” series, 26 August 2017 source ↗

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