If you combine both papers, you get a theory in which the old are mildly traumatized; like survivors of disasters, they feel that starting new things is futile because they don't have enough time left to complete them.
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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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