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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That you’ll no longer be able to mentally double your age and persuade yourself that you’ve only lived half your life.

That whatever kind of physical decline you think you’re experiencing in your forties, it accelerates considerably in your fifties.

That if you still have great sex with your partner, lean into it because libido falls off a cliff with menopause.

That now is the time to concentrate on making money, whatever else is going on in your life. The future you who wants to have the option of retiring early at 60 or 62 will thank you.

That you can have young kids in your forties but you are going to be twice as tired as parents who are in their twenties, so prepare yourself mentally and physically.

That you think you’re old but you’re really not. At 55 or 60, you are going to feel that the 40 year old you is just a wizened version of the young you. By your mid fifties you’ll be looking at a preview of the elderly you in the mirror.[/quote]

This is all bull. At 40 I was a “spring Chicken” Wet behind the ears. I had a two year old and a newborn. I work 50 hours a week, go on business trips, go out to bar, renovate house, stay up with kids all night while wife slept. Here was my schedule. Get up 6am catch 7am train, get home 730pm then clean up kitchen as wife exhausted, wife to bed at 830 pm. I watch kids 830 pm to 6 am all feedings, etc. weekend do chores, fix house, go to family parties. I easily could get by on 4 hours sleep for months on end. I was a child full of energy!

At 50 now with three kids took on a bigger job, bought an investment property. I see could party till two am on a work night and work 60 hour a week but now I needed 5 hours sleep

At 62 I still run around. I go to bed at midnight and wake up 6 am on two boards, work full time, go on vacation several times a year. I have zero medical issues. I don’t work out I eat junk food.

Age is 99 percent mental. I work with 22 year olds who are older than me

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