I'd caution against taking this sort of study too seriously. Some mental abilities are typically in decline well before one's 20s, and others seem to peak well afterwards. So it depends on such things as which mental abilities are more important to what one wants to do.
And, in the case of your age group, medical advances will almost certainly come along later in your life, to boost your abilities to previous levels.
To some extent, yes. Almost as if one's parents had actually imparted accumulated wisdom, instead of tossing one to a school system and hoping for the best.
But there will almost certainly be some issue of trade-off, where one can only get the full mental powers of youth by sacrificing some positive effects of experience. And there will be a real challenge in distinguishing postive effects from negative effects, and in knowing when positive effects are sufficiently minor to justify discarding them.
It feels like I've just grown up, and now they're saying that there's barely nothing ahead before things start going downhill again. I want to return my adult-hood and get a refund!
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There, proof that my decline has already begun!
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And, in the case of your age group, medical advances will almost certainly come along later in your life, to boost your abilities to previous levels.
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Now, that'd make for a lethal combination; decades of cumulative experience and razor sharp wits (provided that's what you started out with).
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But there will almost certainly be some issue of trade-off, where one can only get the full mental powers of youth by sacrificing some positive effects of experience. And there will be a real challenge in distinguishing postive effects from negative effects, and in knowing when positive effects are sufficiently minor to justify discarding them.
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