Im 37 now so closing in on the big 4, 0.
I dont feel that Ive “peaked” but I might occasionally think that I dont have it in me to get much “better at something”. So I pick something new to learn/experience and mine that seam for a while.
case in point, after playing hockey goal keeper for over 15 years (and the last of those at quite a high level) at the end of one season I felt that I just didnt want the “win” as much any more and it was taking me more than a week to recover from the previous weekend’s match. So I stopped playing and took up umpiring.
Whilst I still appreciate the work I do in my primary career, Im concious that there’s a limit to how little challenge there is to discover in it, so im most of the way through an evening plumbing and heating diploma that will lead on to an NVQ2 and then hopefully into biomass specification/installations.
Ive also taken to cutting down trees in a big way. 🙂
A phenomenon I do fear is rather well put by Alan Clark in one of his later diaries:
“I didnt realise it at the time, but I did something for the last time today”
Makes me cold thinking about it.