I remember hearing someone share how he left his hometown to pursue different passions and careers. When he returned years later to visit his family and old classmates, they seemed unchanged just as they were when he left, stagnation. This scares me. I'm generally willing to learn and develop but I've noticed in recent years that it's slowed down and I'm not constantly improving at the rate which I used to. What do?
>>33636994It is not clear what you mean by character, since you seem to consider stagnation to be incompatible with it. Character is generally understood to mean qualities such as courage, honesty, a sense of honor, loyalty, perseverance - or the lack of those things! You will develop those qualities by throwing yourself into life and getting used to doing the right thing rather than the easy thing.As for avoiding stagnation: Do things that challenge you in a good way. You probably know the usual recommendations. One that I came across recently is that it is playing chess against a bot whose skill level you selected. This is more fun than I would have predicted - beating the "beginner" bot became easy with practice but I found that the "intermediate" bot is quite a bit harder, so I read some books on the subject and now win occasionally. The site is chess.com.
