Unless you have a limited amount of time/energy and get it spent on fool's errands. Maybe youth is less conscious about this - time, energy, we have it all - wh

Unless you have a limited amount of time/energy and get it spent on fool's errands. Maybe youth is less conscious about this - time, energy, we have it all - while the older will rather throw the baby with the bathwater. Is there a golden age where these two tendencies balance each other? Or we can only get it in diverse teams?