Optimal age is also relative to what you want to do—different mental abilities peak at wildly different ages. If you stabilize your body at age 25 and then live to be 53, will your verbal ability increase as much as if you let yourself age to 67?
Staying physically 25 doesn’t mean you have to stop learning or physically developing. Surely the development of abilities in adult life is the result of exercising body and mind over the years, not part and parcel of senscence?
Surely the development of abilities in adult life is the result of exercising body and mind over the years, not part and parcel of senscence?
I don’t think we know. I have no idea why verbal ability would peak so late, so I don’t know whether brain changes associated with aging are part of the process.
Staying physically 25 doesn’t mean you have to stop learning or physically developing. Surely the development of abilities in adult life is the result of exercising body and mind over the years, not part and parcel of senscence?
I don’t think we know. I have no idea why verbal ability would peak so late, so I don’t know whether brain changes associated with aging are part of the process.