You've tried to change it. You've told yourself you'd respond differently next time. And somehow next time arrives and you're in the same place. This isn't a willpower problem — it's a narrative problem.

Think about the last time someone half your age had to explain technology or a new saying to you. Did you feel defensive irritation, or a need to tell them how things "used to be"? That reaction feels like protecting your competence, but what if it's actually defending assumptions you inherited simply by being born when you were?