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young people think they're invincible i'm only in my 30s and already started my retirement hobby (wordworking) i'll take this career as far as I can but you n

by readme 6y ago

young people think they're invincible i'm only in my 30s and already started my retirement hobby (wordworking) i'll take this career as far as I can but you never know when the day will come that you've had enough and can't bare to go to work anymore -- it gets harder to just leave a job for another one if you don't like it when you're in your late 50s.

sinenomine 6y ago
I'm in my late 20's and I notice my mental energy/sharpness being slightly lower compared to what they were at my peak age of 22. I learned to compensate for this with some behavioral and biochemical kludges, but the reality of the trend is pretty obvious at this point. Ten years ago I picked up biology and recently added to it ageing research as a hobby, we'll see if it pays off eventually. In mice ... many things one wouldn't believe are possible. Maybe it's the nature of scientific progress - to provide fantastic life-changing results in rodents, often failing to translate to humans in a clinical setting.
- warble 6y ago
  I'm 47, and I don't feel that much decline, and in some ways I'm far more productive. I'm more targeted, experience makes me wiser than I was in my 20s, and the only thing I really notice is that I definitely have 'on' days where I'm pretty good, and 'off' days (more often than not) where I'm just kind of cloudy in comparison. I don't remember these on/off days in my 20s, however, I wasn't paying attention at all, instead chasing girls, adventure, and other unmentionables. So I may of had them then too, but I'm inclined to thing they're more pronounced now. It's also HIGHLY exercise related. The more exercise I get, the better everything works. Someone else mentioned their grandfather says 'keep moving' - This is by FAR the best advice for growing older. Keep going.. when you're a kid you don't need to do that as much, your body is going anyway.. Later in life it takes determined effort.
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- jgraettinger1 6y ago
  In my twenties, I had an amazing ability to run at a problem. Long periods of great focus. The only trouble was how frequently I was running in the wrong direction. The gift of aging for me (late 30's) has been the appreciation that an inability to get into flow is usually because I've got buried reservations on a design/approach, and that I need to spend some time trying to surface them.
- blaser-waffle 6y ago
  Sitting at a desk all day will kill you. Biggest difference I noticed in mental decline was % of sedentary time. COVID has been a good control since the gyms are closed and I'm in Canada, so the winters forced me inside. Night and day difference between last year or the years before.
- userulluipeste 6y ago
  Regarding my early to mid 20s, I remember the crazy amount of information, which I was constantly attempting to ingest "to catch up", that left my mind scrambled for many years after. It was so pleasant to observe later (in my mid 30s) how gradually I got my clear mind back and my focus improved. If I really had a higher mental ability in my 20s, I surely overdid it.
Taylor_OD 6y ago
I'm grateful that I have a career outside of engineering where I had success and played a sport at a high level and had success. Both of those are in my past now and when they stopped being a huge part of who I was it was really difficult for a while. However now I'm much better at enjoying things outside of work and sport. I cant imagine what having that realization at 40 or 50 would be like. It would probably feel like the majority of your life was a lie.

by readme 6y ago

sinenomine 6y ago

I'm in my late 20's and I notice my mental energy/sharpness being slightly lower compared to what they were at my peak age of 22. I learned to compensate for this with some behavioral and biochemical kludges, but the reality of the trend is pretty obvious at this point. Ten years ago I picked up biology and recently added to it ageing research as a hobby, we'll see if it pays off eventually. In mice ... many things one wouldn't believe are possible. Maybe it's the nature of scientific progress - to provide fantastic life-changing results in rodents, often failing to translate to humans in a clinical setting.

warble 6y ago
I'm 47, and I don't feel that much decline, and in some ways I'm far more productive. I'm more targeted, experience makes me wiser than I was in my 20s, and the only thing I really notice is that I definitely have 'on' days where I'm pretty good, and 'off' days (more often than not) where I'm just kind of cloudy in comparison. I don't remember these on/off days in my 20s, however, I wasn't paying attention at all, instead chasing girls, adventure, and other unmentionables. So I may of had them then too, but I'm inclined to thing they're more pronounced now. It's also HIGHLY exercise related. The more exercise I get, the better everything works. Someone else mentioned their grandfather says 'keep moving' - This is by FAR the best advice for growing older. Keep going.. when you're a kid you don't need to do that as much, your body is going anyway.. Later in life it takes determined effort.
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jgraettinger1 6y ago
In my twenties, I had an amazing ability to run at a problem. Long periods of great focus. The only trouble was how frequently I was running in the wrong direction. The gift of aging for me (late 30's) has been the appreciation that an inability to get into flow is usually because I've got buried reservations on a design/approach, and that I need to spend some time trying to surface them.
blaser-waffle 6y ago
Sitting at a desk all day will kill you. Biggest difference I noticed in mental decline was % of sedentary time. COVID has been a good control since the gyms are closed and I'm in Canada, so the winters forced me inside. Night and day difference between last year or the years before.
userulluipeste 6y ago
Regarding my early to mid 20s, I remember the crazy amount of information, which I was constantly attempting to ingest "to catch up", that left my mind scrambled for many years after. It was so pleasant to observe later (in my mid 30s) how gradually I got my clear mind back and my focus improved. If I really had a higher mental ability in my 20s, I surely overdid it.

Taylor_OD 6y ago

I'm grateful that I have a career outside of engineering where I had success and played a sport at a high level and had success. Both of those are in my past now and when they stopped being a huge part of who I was it was really difficult for a while. However now I'm much better at enjoying things outside of work and sport. I cant imagine what having that realization at 40 or 50 would be like. It would probably feel like the majority of your life was a lie.