Speaking generally: learning those things is often the best thing you can do for your brain, and then you won't be so old anymore. I think people overestimate

Speaking generally: learning those things is often the best thing you can do for your brain, and then you won't be so old anymore. I think people overestimate the effect of age on learning. Children spend years becoming fluent in their native language, and with little focus or study of it. I could learn a language faster. (Not an apples-apples comparison, obviously, because children's brains and behavior are so much different.)