Current Events > At what age do you think most people peak mentally?

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on avg, obv. i mean. Physically wouldn't it be like, 25, or so?

about thirty seconds before brain death.

40s. Enough time for study and experience without getting too old for new tech.

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Squall28 posted...

40s.

The 40s are a magical time. You're still learning new things, but just beginning to hate it all.

Well my mentality is definitely declining thats for sure.

I guess 35

whatever your final year of schooling is

25

That's when you're almost to your 30s and basically you're an old fart by then. Once you're 30 it's just a gradual decline.

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Terry Gilliam, tho.

At birth.

The Age of Consent.

Statistically around 16 I think

The average newspaper is written to about a sixth grade reading level

Eh. Don't care. AllI know is Im 32 and still unlocking shit regularly. I think it has a lot to do with open mindedness. If you're close minded, you start thinking you inow everything and suffocate the chances you'll allow yourself to learn anything new

Lost_All_Senses posted...

If you're close minded, you start thinking you inow everything and suffocate the chances you'll allow yourself to learn anything new

see post #6.

Something I learned as an adult, dumb kids generally don't get any smarter. You're lucky if smart kids don't get any more dumb.

ChocoboMog123 posted...

You're lucky is smart kids don't get any more dumb.

I'd like to argue that point.

Im so much better at understanding shit now Im in my mid 30s than I was in my 20s

The_Creep_2020 posted...

Im so much better at understanding shit now Im in my mid 30s than I was in my 20s

I can come back to NES games I utterly sucked at forty years ago, and they are trivial.
I may have the wrong priorities in life here.

Between Late 40s, mid 50s.

Questionmarktarius posted...

see post #6.

These things aren't connected to me. You can pretend they are since Im not 40 yet. But that would just be you using the absense of evidence as truth with nothing to actually back it up.

And maybe you do represent the most. But I stated in the beginning I only care about me for this. It makes no since to care what depressing thing strangers convince themselves of. That does the opposite of benefit me. And allowing 40 year olds to convince me of something could be exactly what makes it a reality >_>. I throw all the depression takes out the window if there's nothing to actually back them up. My mom is62 and doesn't really hate anything that isn't immoral. And she's my biggest hero. So, that alone makes me more likely to have what you said be irrelevant to me.

Maybe you're not tying hating everything to depression. But it definitely doesn't help you out of depression if it comes for you

Lost_All_Senses posted...

You can pretend they are since Im not 40 yet.

You'll get there.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

I'd like to argue that point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUjYy4Ksy1E

I was in "the smart class" my whole life, but definitely fell down the well of depression and procrastination and know plenty of other people who did the same. I scored in the 99th percentile on standardized tests and missed one question on the SAT. I came across one of those math olympiad questions on Youtube, one I definitely solved when I was 13-14, and just couldn't do it.

I'm much better at interpersonal connections, now, and would make different life decisions than when I was younger. But I was definitely more intelligent as a teenager than I am now. I think even disregarding the depression eating holes in my brain and lifestyle changes, I'd probably still be smarter at 16 than 30-something.

This article from MIT suggests different types of intelligence peak at different ages: https://news.mit.edu/2015/brain-peaks-at-different-ages-0306

Vicious_Dios posted...

Between Late 40s, mid 50s.

That seems about right

27-30.
still young and optimist, but already has some experience on life

ChocoboMog123 posted...

I'm much better at interpersonal connections, now

I think I've gotten worse.

My dad didn't start falling for conspiracy theories until 9/11, so I'm going to say late 40s/early 50s from personal experience.

I read a fun fact about the brain and how it starts to deteriorate when we get to twenty-seven or thereabouts. It got me thinking about my head and what I can do to help stimulate it. Makes me sad, but I've forgotten what I'm on about.

IShall_Run_Amok posted...

My dad didn't start falling for conspiracy theories until 9/11

My dad was a rock-solid union-labor UAW democrat from the mid 70s on, and became a full-ass Trumper in 2016.
I have no idea how the hell that happened, and I've been an Orwell-Rand weirdo since the 90s.

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Questionmarktarius posted...

You'll get there.

Why do you think we're alike?

And don't get me sideways. I want you to win. I want you to not "hate everything". I want you to experience all old things like they're new again. But, I feel like you're taking the path furthest away from the path that gets you there when you say shit like this. You also try to push negativity onto others, which will make everyone else aside from others who got no positive people left in their life either to chill with. Cause positive people get tired of letting negative people unwilling to be open to change around them as they age.

Iunno. All my milestones of personal growth are happy. Like the one this month when I finally broke free of a lot more social anxieties.

When you're overly negative you become a self fulfilling prophecy and everyone does end up sucking because that's the only people left that will deal with you. Everyone else is too busy laughing and talking stuff out in more supportive ways

Lost_All_Senses posted...

I want you to not "hate everything".

Cynicism is only "hate everything" when you don't know why.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Cynicism is only "hate everything" when you don't know why.

My posts are no longer for you. They're for people headed down your path but aren't doomed to it yet. I hope you have a revelation at some point. But the way you're acting, I feel like you might not answer the door for it even if it's right outside. Which sucks. Cause they feel amazing

bout tree fiddy

Lost_All_Senses posted...

They're for people headed down your path but aren't doomed to it yet. I hope you have a revelation at some point.

I like the way you think. Everything could be great, but I'm a cynical asshole.

Questionmarktarius posted...

about thirty seconds after ego death.

Ftfy

Questionmarktarius posted...

I like the way you think. Everything could be great, but I'm a cynical asshole.

I dunno man. What worked for me was just leaning away from negativity. Funny thing is, I just watched a movie earlier tonight where one of the main characters said "Being nice and sweet doesn't make me naive. It's strategic and necessary. It's how I fight". Which, I completely understand as someone who tries to follow that same path my whole life and has only seen the benefits it affords me.

One in which I already mentioned. Having supportive people around me who will also laugh with me. Someone might say "You're being used" sometimes. But they just sound like they never felt what it's like to be useful. It's a good feeling.

Obviously this has it's limits and you can't just do stuff for disingenuous people. But the same people who use you genuinely, will let you use them when you need them. Because being useful feels good. The world becomes more positive when you build this network around you that promotes positive mental growth (see, this is relevant to the topic :3). And 40 isn't too old to start build or keep building.

Lost_All_Senses posted...

Funny thing is, I just watched a movie earlier tonight where one of the main characters said "Being nice and sweet doesn't make me naive. It's strategic and necessary. It's how I fight".

Title. please.

I have maybe five versions of 1984, and that's not helping.

Questionmarktarius posted...

Title. please.

I have maybe five versions of 1984, and that's not helping.

Everything Everywhere All at Once.

It's from last year, I think? This year? It's a crazy movie. Id liken it to The Matrix and John Dies at the End.

It literally depends on which cognitive ability you're trying to measure.