For example in order for you to become a professor you need to now hell of a lot stuff and publish theories etc.In order to do that it takes a lot of years.Some do it in their 80s.But in the mean time you get older and your brain gets dumber and dumber.So can you become smarter and learn more stuff until you are alive or is there some limit considering that you become more unefficient?
P.S.Sports for example.The more you train the better you get but you become weaker in your 30s because you simply get older.
2006-12-18 21:59:53 · 4 answers · asked by brich_inc 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
After all we do lose brain cells in time,don't we?
2006-12-18 22:08:31 · update #1
Brirch
Have you heard of Late Bloomers? They acheive but at a later age.
And when the old Yankee guys showed up a few years ago for the "old-timers" game - they played better then when they did it professionally. The remarks were - the grass was better, the bats are lighter and the balls are made differently.
Meanwhile, as for someone's brain - they need to take care of themselves -- especially nutrientally. Not just the information they take in, but the food they take. I have a 90 year old woman living here that under her doctor's advice, lost weight. (60 lbs. in 4 months to please him.) In the process, she really did lose her brain - she starved it...
Take care of yourself. John Stuart Mill once wrote that you should find out as young as possible what you would like to become and then spend you life trying to reach that goal.
There is always time as long as you are still alive -- and it's easier if you are in good health.
Good luck.
2006-12-18 22:11:23 · answer #1 · answered by Bogie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Firstly I don't think athleticism has anything to do with brainpower and as for getting dumber and dumber I suspect the opposite is true, to a certain point. It is only in modern times that the " wisdom of age" has lost it's meaning and youth has adopted the attitude that they know it all, and anybody else is an idiot.
The truth is that you need never stop learning and there are many examples of people who have had a very limited education for some reason, deciding to put it right quite late in life and doing it successfully.
There is nothing you could do to become even a fourth rate athlete at 65.
2006-12-19 06:40:24 · answer #2 · answered by Ted T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As you "get older and your brain gets dumber and dumber" is not a really accurate statement. Your brain, if it remains active and challenged (ie.not sitting infront of the tv and being lazy) can be very healthy for a very long time. Your body on the other hand does have limitations with age.
2006-12-19 06:02:56 · answer #3 · answered by surfer_grl_ca 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My spin is this:
Make the best of what you have while you have it. Development is ongoing and change is inevitable.
2006-12-19 06:14:09 · answer #4 · answered by Neil S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋