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I’ve found the exact opposite, age has given me greater focus, at 50 I’ve been able to study while working and raising four kids, I was not capable of the same
by monkeycantype 5y ago
I’ve found the exact opposite, age has given me greater focus, at 50 I’ve been able to study while working and raising four kids, I was not capable of the same in my 20s
- wiz21c 5y agoHow was memorizing going ? For me it's real bad. Things just don't stick in my mind (I've never experienced that before).
- monkeycantype 5y agoI have theory on this, I don't think I'm worse at remembering (yet!), I think what matters is the energy you can bring to focusing at the time your absorbing information in the first place. I have to plan to have that energy in advance, doing some exercise the day before so I can sleep, go to bed at 9 pm the night before with one earplug so I can still have an ear out for emergencies but not the snuffles and shuffles of children and pets, get up at five when the house is dark, go outside for a bit - then hit the books uninterrupted in the quiet morning. If I do that, my fifty year old focus is better than I ever had as a 20 year old - but! If I look ahead, at the older generations of my family, I'm confident I've got a good ten years, maybe fifteen, but don't see another 20. Like many on here, I think I had a high potential - low discipline brain. I was never setting the world on fire, and even if as I age the potential ceiling of my cognitive capacity has come down, it was never an ceiling I was in danger of hitting, and now with a little more willpower I'm getting more out of the (possibly diminishing) total mental horsepower I have, than I ever did as a younger me.