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Is stereotype that ambition diminishes with age true?
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4480281/
My dad (a wise man) put it like this:
Young people have ambition and energy, but no resources to follow them
Old people have resources, but have lost their energy.
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Well said.
I agree with all that you and your dad say.
I am aged 58 years, and to be honest I find ambition quite stressful these days.
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To be honest, I don't think stereotype is an appropriate word to use in the context of your question.
You should just ask.
Is it true that ambition diminishes with age?
If you wish to refer to stereotype.
You should perhaps ask.
Are older people, stereotypically, less ambitious?
My apologies for being picky about grammar.
Nonetheless.
I would agree with your proposition and put myself forward as a perfect exemplar of the less ambitious, older person.
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That said, there are also people who have an almost eternal drive to improve and to do something new. You often see people on the news achieving remarkable things in their old age; I remember a report on a 95 years old Japanese man who reached the peak of Everest, for example.
I myself am like that. Currently, for example, in addition to my general profession (physics) and one of the major hobbies (music), I became obsessed with car technology and I am reading a lot about various car parts every day, planning to take a certified course for car mechanics just to better understand cars. Also I am working on a mathematical algorithm that maximizes gains from trading on the foreign currency market, hoping to eventually put the algorithm into practice and to improve my personal economy, as well as maybe publish the algorithm in the interest of economics. Always something new to learn or to try, and too little time to do it all!
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