I listened to Magnus and I took that quite differently.
I took that he said that others have caught up and he is just not motivated to do the type of studying to improve even further at this point.
There is a process we don't really have a name for that was best summed up by the boxer Marvin Hagler:
“It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5am when you've been sleeping in silk pajamas”
The demotivation of success. Of course, that is also going to correlate with age and be very hard to disentangle. At the same time testosterone levels will be past peak, adding another variable in the mix. Plus actual mental acuity past peak.
In other words, as someone pushing 50. Getting old kind of sucks systemically.
I took that he said that others have caught up and he is just not motivated to do the type of studying to improve even further at this point.
There is a process we don't really have a name for that was best summed up by the boxer Marvin Hagler:
“It's tough to get out of bed to do roadwork at 5am when you've been sleeping in silk pajamas”
The demotivation of success. Of course, that is also going to correlate with age and be very hard to disentangle. At the same time testosterone levels will be past peak, adding another variable in the mix. Plus actual mental acuity past peak.
In other words, as someone pushing 50. Getting old kind of sucks systemically.