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What scares you about getting older?

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Steve Jobs Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar
It’s often the same with any new, revolutionary thing. People get stuck as they get older. Our minds are sort of electrochemical computers. Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them.
Recorded David Sheff, Playboy Interview, February 1985 source ↗

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