Old folks’ reluctance to learn

From my recent observations, it seems to me pretty obvious that, as we age, we’re more reluctant to learn. 

Currently, I’m up against setting up a new GoPro camera to replace the 12 year old one I had, and transferring nine years of work and data from an old Windows 10 computer to a newer Windows 11 version, and I find that work pretty tedious and very hard. 

On the other hand, last July, I began learning Spanish and still persevere and love it, so things aren’t that black and white!

Sure, in a decade there have been lots of changes affecting myself and my environment, like cognitive changes, setting deeper in comfortable routines, not seeing a need for learning, changing priorities and a bunch of little details that have begun shaping my universe in many different ways that are not always as exciting as I would like. 

Tomorrow, we’ll try to explore these…