Learning unpleasant (but possibly important) things might seem valuable if you have a long life ahead of you, when you might make use of that information. If not, why put yourself through the misery? May as well focus on the positive.
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If you have all the time in the world, starting new, open-ended, exploratory things, which may have large vague spots on the map, is appealing, because you can firm up the details later. You have the time to do it all.
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If you have limited time (and limited capacities), you want to limit your attention to things you can actually get done, which means more modest, more concrete, more immediately enjoyable, more "near mode."
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Achieving long-term goals is of course a matter of building a long-term, far-mode aspiration out of near-mode, concrete building blocks. If this is connected to age, maybe it's important to have more collaborations between older and younger adults.
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(This only works if there's mutual respect though; I don't think it would be any good for old or young people to shame each other for having different priorities.)
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