Bitch I’ve been trying to sabotage this mother fucker for years, never brought me anything but misery
You tried the little switch at the back that goes between evil and good?
That's what that is?
I thought it was a 'Straight or Gay' switch!! Brb, I'm off to do some evil stuff. Muhahahaha!!
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Ow, you lied. And my arse is really sore!
(J/k. I'll use any excuse to do butt stuff, or get railed.)
Nobody that lives in the world and meets people thinks that mental sharpness must decline as you get older, only that it is common.
Usually these studies say exactly that though
I thought it was reported a whole back that the benefits of those "brain training" apps were vastly over-hyped. Gonna have to go back & look for those reports.
I believe the finding was that learning new skills was the beneficial part, and it didn't help to keep doing them once you were proficient
Learning is good for the brain at any age. Picking up a new skill, traveling to a foreign land, starting a new job with new people…
Fiddling with an app on your phone…. Not so much.
"patent pending"
Includes "Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Oxford Happiness Questionnaire"
The article doesn't go into the details but it doesn't look good. Including how happy you feel into a final metric of how well you can process data doesn't seem rigorous.
"This 80 year old is happy and doesn't know his own name so we will rank him higher than this woman who is still practicing law and playing chess at grandmaster level but is depressed and not sleeping well. "
I think what they mean is you can relearn things you forgot and learn new things at the age of 90, not that your brain is better than ever.
Did you read the article? That's not what I interpreted at all.
Yeah, I guess you need to have experience working with elders to really understand what they are saying and I am definitely reading between the lines as I have spent over a decade in elder care.
"This study challenges the prevailing narrative of inevitable cognitive decline, suggesting instead that brain health can be proactively cultivated at any age."
The human mind can be improved at any age. Therefore you can still relearn previous concepts and learn new things at any time. I don't think serious cognitive decline is a given, but some cognitive decline is natural when the mind isn't being exercised about a topic. Think learning a foreign language in high school but not remembering much because you didn't keep practicing.
Maintaining physical exercise seems to be correlated with mental sharpness
But that was 30 years ago!
Wonder if my spatial intelligence will improve. Couldn't get much worse!
Breaking news, old people aren't dead yet.
It just chooses not to.
They did a study on my brain? I didn't even know about it.
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