This is a partial repost of a Napoleon Hill Yesterday and Today Article in issue 929 dated October 25, 2024 and originally published in PMA: Science of Success by Napoleon Hill.
It encompasses what patterson2y2r.com talks about all the time.
“Fear of old age is the fifth basic fear. We like to jump on this fear with both feet, and to laugh about it - because it is a lot better to laugh than to cry about it.
When you have a birthday, take a year off your age instead of adding one. Thus you will begin to feel younger and to change in appearance so that you will look younger.
This will be so because you will have sold yourself on the idea of youth rather than old age. It has been discovered that some of the men of greatest achievement have done their life's best work after fifty-five, and some even after sixty and seventy.
The reason for this is that nature compensates you for the loss of youth with one of the greatest things in the world - wisdom. Wisdom comes from experience, and experience comes with age.
One has a good time when he is twenty, twenty-five and thirty, but when he has passed these years, he would not choose to go back to them again. He is more useful to the world as he matures.
True enough, he can no longer stay up such long hours and get around so well at night, but most of these activities disappear with maturity. The worst part of the fear of old age is that it causes one to slow down and develop a feeling of inferiority just at a time when he actually is in his best years.
You should have a positive appreciation for the increased assets of wisdom and understanding which come with more years. Incidentally, that word understanding is one of the most meaningful words in our language.
It is the thing the world needs most. Just one word of caution about having a positive mental attitude as you grow older. It is poor taste and bad judgment to try to dress and imitate the mannerisms of youth after you have reached maturity.
To do so will make you seem ridiculous. Act your age. Perhaps some of you who read this are getting along to the point in life where you need a technique for keeping yourself sold on the idea of a youthful outlook.
Maybe you find that early in the morning, when you first get out of bed, Father Time sometimes sneaks up along side of you. The moment you see him coming say in loud, unmistakable tones: "Get out of here, old man, and stay out! I have no need of your services whatever. Get out of here!"
Try this and you will see that it is not so ridiculous as it sounds at first. It is a technique to get a positive mental attitude while the body is warming up for the day's activities.
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