Giving Up: You probably won't save your best for last

The media sings of old people doing amazing things. For example, it tells anecdotes sent to them by encore.org about people who, late in life, have spearheaded some help-the-poor initiative.

But the vast majority of older people reading such stories are unlikely to be inspired to do the same. They’re more likely to feel inferior, guilty for having realistically assessed that late-in-life success is too unlikely to justify expending their waning physical and mental capabilities in hopes of a last hurrah, to not go gentle into the good night, to save the best for last.

I defend that decision in my PsychologyToday.com article today.