🦄 Startups & VC 2d ago · Christian Kelly

Nobody tells you that the most attractive version of yourself might not arrive until your late 40s — after you’ve stopped dressing for approval and started dressing like someone who already knows who they are

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Nobody tells you that the most attractive version of yourself might not arrive until your late 40s — after you’ve stopped dressing for approval and started dressing like someone who already knows who they are
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Self-presentation operates on a developmental curve that most commentary ignores entirely; the assumption being that attractiveness is a property of youth, refined through effort, and gradually surrendered to time. The more interesting possibility (and one supported by a growing body of work in developmental psychology) is that the magnetic version of a person often arrives considerably later, and for reasons that have almost nothing to do with aesthetics.
Consider the contrast. A thirty-somethi

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