What’s Your Milk Bone?

Don’t tell me that an old dog can’t learn new tricks.

I have an old dog. It took a few treats, but she learned to roll over in less than a week. And she’s almost 70 in "dog years".

The issue is not age, the difficulty of a trick, or the capacity for learning.
The issue is incentive.

In the case of my dog, it took some good quality milk bones.

So, it’s not that old dogs can’t learn new tricks; it’s that we accept as inevitable the negative correlation between age and motivation. As age increases, motivation decreases; by the age of, say, 70, there’s no incentive to change. Why bother?

It doesn’t have to be that way.

A lack of incentive can strike at any age. The opposite is equally true.
Incentive, inspiration, motivation know no age limit. We can always learn new tricks. We can and we must.

What are your sources of inspiration?
What’s your milk bone?