It would be interesting to test this on career paths that basically require continuous learning.

Like I would be a perfect test subject because I plan to stay in the IT engineering space my whole career.

and, like, people just straight up stop trying. they hear that it's harder to learn as you age so they don't even try, and that of course confirms to everyone around them that it's true, and so everyone keeps giving up.

it drives me up the fucking wall and the spite i hold for this phenomenon is like 70% of why i have a healthy lifestyle. I fully intend to be doing acrobatics at 60 purely so i can make people feel bad for making moronic lifestyle choices like driving 2km to buy 5 liters of alcohol for the weekend