Most people find that as they grow older, the bowl that holds their thoughts grows smaller throughout life. This reflects how mindset changes with age, impacting perspective and priorities.
It’s not that the bowl itself is literally shrinking. The extra space where other ideas could be stored is disappearing. This highlights changing perspectives as one ages.
When we say that people become “set in their ways” with age,
what it really means is that they grow uncomfortable with removing or changing the information already in their heads throughout life.
Because of this, it becomes hard to accept new ideas throughout life,
and just as hard to change the ideas they already hold. This demonstrates how the mindset undergoes changes with age.
Here, those “existing ideas” are essentially a person’s beliefs.
That’s why it’s rare for someone past a certain age to have their core beliefs change.
Those beliefs fix the way they look at the world. They spend the rest of their lives staring at it through a narrow, biased field of vision. This illustrates how mindset changes as one ages.
People who see only what they want to see.
Human beings are, in truth, very fragile creatures, and this fragility can make the mindset change with age.
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