Individuals out of work for an extended period can become less employable as they lose the specific skills acquired in their previous jobs and also lose the habits needed to hold down any job.
After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.
I'm not the same fighter I used to be.
What's great about stand-up unlike athletes and other things when you get old you get old and rusty.
Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability.
Computers force us into creating with our minds and prevent us from making things with our hands. They dull the skills we use in everyday life.
I was playing good tennis up until 100.
There's a fine line between something saving you time and replacing a bit of you that could be useful. I've certainly become more and more aware of that. All it takes is for my phone to run out of battery and I need to find a place and I suddenly realise I have no sense of direction anymore because I'm so used to using it for that.
Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down
People who stay unemployed for a long time start to look like damaged goods, and they don't get such good offers. Also, they're not learning anything. Most learning is on-the-job learning.
Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing.
It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
Without practice, just playing games, a lot of habits kind of slip away.
I once did something right. I played first-rate basketball. I really did. And after you're first-rate at something, no matter what, it kind of takes the kick out of being second-rate.
Ageing means a loss of a number of skills over time.
Not being able to train or fight for a long time is not going to make you a better fighter.
I think that's a weak excuse, to say because a rapper's getting older that he ain't got it no more. Nah. Don't go by that philosophy. Let's just recognize that talent is within.
I really rely a lot more on memory. I'm definitely not as good of a sight reader.
I don't use the techniques I learned at NYU much anymore.
I know I personally get a little rusty when I've jumped back and forth.
I can always go back to waiting tables, but I won't be very good at it. I'll never be good at it.
For five or six years, I didn't play in some of the good games leading up to the World Series of Poker, because with so many below-average players there, I reasoned it messed up my game.
If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don't watch it, you start showing off. And then you're not as good any more.
Ring rust is real. I've experienced it myself.
