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Old age begins at 27

by Ann Smarty | March 15, 2009 at 02:38 am

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How old are you? You might have already achieved the peak of your mental development and now are getting less clever day by day. According to recent research, our mental abilities begin to decline from the age of 27 after reaching a peak at 22.

The first age at which performance was significantly lower than the peak scores was 27 – for three tests of reasoning, speed of thought and spatial visualisation. Memory was shown to decline from the average age of 37. In the other tests, poorer results were shown by the age of 42.

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Anon-and-on (not verified)

at 04:06 on March 15th, 2009

if we are old at 27-years then I sure ain't going to tell you my age except to say I've must have been "brain dead!" for decades and I didn't even realise it until I read this post.

But my brain is much quicker now than at 27-years, probably because then I smoked to many strange things which I also haven't done for decades.

But with the brain rot comes something called "wisdom" and although we are using less of our brain, with wisdom thrown in, we are achieving much more.

Something about the 20%/80% rule? With 20% effort, I achieve 80% effect.

Thank you for informing me about my brain condition, I've been wondering about for so long?