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Personally I don't think it's anything to worry about for the vast majority of people, only those rare outliers of both brilliance and industry are going to see
by mellosouls 5y ago
Personally I don't think it's anything to worry about for the vast majority of people, only those rare outliers of both brilliance and industry are going to see significant negative effects in their output due to age-related mental decline.
In terms of individual peak production the greatest pop stars, physicists and poets (say) are done by 25. Your average decent coder can pretty much go on producing for decades.
Only at the extremes is this going to have a massive effect. Most of us don't live there and we maybe over-worry about it.
- master_crab 5y agoThe link between young age and (new) musical production is well established. Everything else - with the possible exception of math which is pretty related to musical ability - less so.
- AQuantized 5y agoAlthough there are plenty of examples of great physicists with very early output, most typically continue to contribute substantially. Even Einstein's major breakthroughs in general relativity didn't come until his late 30s. Modern theoretical physicists like Ed Witten often didn't get started until ~25 and most of their contributions come much later.