“Older people have shorter time horizons. For many years, people thought that must make people miserable and scared…It actually makes people feel calmer not to have to prepare for this long and nebulous future, to be able to live more in the present.” www.wsj.com/health/welln... - ThreadSky

conorsen.bsky.social • 97 days ago

“Older people have shorter time horizons. For many years, people thought that must make people miserable and scared…It actually makes people feel calmer not to have to prepare for this long and nebulous future, to be able to live more in the present.” https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/aging-living-longer-benefits-70a248d9?mod=mhp

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appreciatorsteve.bsky.social•97 days ago

”Happiness is a matter of attention.” @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

conorsen.bsky.social•97 days ago

“There’s a lot of evidence that when you show younger and older people different kinds of stimuli, and then later you ask them which ones they remembered, older people remember many more of the positive images than negative images. And younger people do the opposite.”

mihirpshah.bsky.social•97 days ago

Millennials specifically have gone through a lot the last quarter-century.

As someone a bit older, the more “negative” experiences you have, the more resilient and even thriving you can become with the right mindset, but it’s a skill to develop with patience. It’s kind of like “reps and sets”.

maikoko.bsky.social•96 days ago

I would also think it’s a matter of evolution for youth to have memory of negative events for survival purposes

laurentguy.bsky.social•97 days ago

Could it be that the negative stimuli were for rare events or linked to risky activities? This would mean that old people would instinctively know that they can worry less about those.

terrellwrites.bsky.social•97 days ago

A few years ago, I remember seeing a documentary on aging. They interviewed a woman who'd lost her husband a few years earlier, but had a life filled with friends and hobbies. I'll never forget what she said when they asked her why she was so happy: "I don't have the burden of the future anymore."

uaeeconomist.bsky.social•97 days ago

For those who are financially secure, their financial horizon stays long -- i.e., they stay mostly in stocks, not bonds. Edward Jones stopped trying to get my parents to move to bonds once EJ realized it didn't make sense. (Even ignoring the capital gains tax, and inheritance tax law.)

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