Potential might matter more than achievement, via research from Zakary Tormala at Stanford

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JshqO5VQfEE&w=620&h=315] As a society, we broadly seem to value the young and virile -- every year that you add is an opportunity for jokes about adding said years, and we take care (well, often) of the very old as if they were children again. It shouldn't be surprising, then, that there's a high value placed som…