Not really true. Age is a measure of time. Not a quality. Age offers nothing to the mind that time isn't actively erasing. Between 25 and 50 you accumulate as much information as your brain is going to accumulate regardless of the quality of that information. Between 3 and 10, you learn exponentially faster than any other point in your life, but you can also learn the wrong information just as fast. Age and Experience are both, useless, in isolation. Neither on it's own is inherently beneficial. What is beneficial is Intelligence, or rather, the measure of how quickly you can process and adapt to new information. Experience and Age have no value without intelligent use of that time and experience.
I genuinely believe ages 16-45 are the smartest in terms of developing beneficial practices and ideas. Experience plays a huge role in life, but it can also skew a positive trajectory by “sticking to what you know.” In my career field, medicine, older providers are commonly on a downward trend due to them refusing to “update” their knowledge. If your experiences hinder you from adapting and growing, you are not the peak of intelligence.
@@Cinnapupz Why would I not include 16? That’s a prime age for students to begin leadership roles and entrepreneurship. I didn’t include it just for fun.
Not gonna lie... I felt the smartest in my teens. That passion for learning had me reading lots of books, doing activities, and having time to explore. I felt my vocab was at its peak and recall was fast.
@@JasonMomos I think I got really overloaded in my higher education programs where reading and learning transitioned from something I did for fun to work. I also was in a doctoral program that really drained me straight after my bachelor's. Maybe such a thing as too much learning? Lol
I feel like I was at my smartest in terms of being to quickly creatively problem solve, retain information and reason at around 18-19. Feel like in some ways I'm now (age 27) smarter, especially linguistically, but generally I can feel myself getting duller as time goes on. Think work taking up a large part of my cognitive load is a big factor. I'm still pretty intellectually curious but at the end of a working day I'm now more likely to go for lighter forms of entertainment than I used to.
I believe “The more you know the more you dont know” thats because one might seek more knowledge and realise they know nothing in the process In teenage years you often only know just enough to feel smart, reinforced by being the smartest in your friend groups/schools but that might not enough to want to be smarter
They can learn 5 different languages simultaneously, figure out mobile phones and even master video games. Mine's even figured out exactly how far they can push my buttons before I lose my temper. Yet he still smacks himself on the head when trying to open a bag of snacks.
I hope my friend doesn't come to this channel. She's been awarded a MacArthur Genius grant based on work she'd done in her late sixties. Also funny is that usually the reaction time in a 60 year old is the same as when that person was 20. I suppose much depends on maintaining good enough health.
@@toddboothbee1361 Some people maybe more healthy compared to an avg person. You're friend might be one of them. It depends from person to person, but, on an avg, people under 8 and over 65 are less stable. And, I didn't understand what you wanted to convey by saying "I've heard the same said of women."
Your knowledge base will grow but your fluid abilities (things like spatial ability, processing speed, attention, working memory, reasoning) have already begun to decline since your early-to-mid 20. (when your frontal lobes fully developed). The decline is pretty slow until your 40s-50s. Google images for “fluid intelligence throughout lifespan” if you’re curious.
Likewise, although I am about to enter my 30s. I think having a passion to learn is what allows us to be better people as learning requires deep self reflection from learning from your mistakes. Attempting to learn subjects that you find difficult allows for a deeper understanding of yourself, your limitations and how you can work through them.
30 is the smartest age. Anyone younger has there brain less developed and less smart. The only reason they can learn and be creative easily is because they have a caretaker that constantly trains em and it’s socially unacceptable for adults to do stuff children do which makes em look more creative. But there brain is actually less developed and less smart. But after 30 people’s brains decline. So 30 is the smartest age.
@@Texan_christian1132 stop lying science says and many sources the brain fully developps at 25 not even 30 you are just making things up with no scientifical source or no source in general because you are probably near 30
In my opinion, I think the peak intelligence for most people is the teenage years. It’s the transition between childhood and adulthood, it’s the time where kids are growing and learning to explore themselves and the world, the time where they form hobbies and be more responsible. It’s also the time where one realizes how vast the world actually is and how there is so much to learn and know. I’m not saying humans are the smartest when they are teens (def not), what I mean is that it’s the time where we actually learn new things and start exploring.
Agreed But in my opinion anyone can be smart at any age and at any way whether if it is ideas,creative,memory,learning etc etc.. All they need is just logic and try.
Sounds good but 30 is the smartest age. Anyone younger has there brain less developed and less smart. The only reason they can learn and be creative easily is because they have a caretaker that constantly trains em and it’s socially unacceptable for adults to do stuff children do which makes em look more creative. But there brain is actually less developed and less smart. But after 30 people’s brains decline. So 30 is the smartest age.
this actually reminds of a study where kids, teens, and adults did a test from nasa themselves. Most adults failed, half of the teens failed, and most kids passed. The conclusion they came with is that kids have no consequences for making mistakes and don't fear them at all while teens have fear as they're more or less seen as adults while having creativity similar to a child. And adults get the short end of the stick as consequences for them messing up can be life changing. I'd recommend check out the home movies review from emp lemon as he goes into more detail about the Nasa experiment himself.
I feel the smartest right now, currently 28, the overall experience and knowledge just surpasses all me I could learn the quickest in my teen age years, particularly 15-16, I noticed I picked up skills very fast and mastered them in no time
I have the same question as Silvesta, what kind of skills did you pick up at 15-16? Why do you think you picked them up very quickly and mastered them in no time? What did you do to achieve mastery in those skills you have learned? Sorry for all the questions, I'm just curious.
I'm 17 years old, and looking back I don't think I've changed at all over the years. I can remember when I was three, and besides being more optimistic perhaps, I had the same thought process. I'm how I've always been. Perhaps, less happens in my mind than when I was younger, but that is the only change.
Sitting at 25, I do feel like I’ve experienced some change since my teenage years, but also that I’ve carried particular modes of thought with me from my preteens all the way into adulthood (there are some parts of my childhood thought process I recall, but I feel like my internal monologue/dialogue was till developing then). But in some cases I’d say it’s situational to lifestyle more than my age, the two just happen to coincide. How I thought about certain things changed when I went to college, then they changed again when 2020 happened and I was at home, then they changed a third time when I got my first full time job. The synapses that fire and the thought processes you need every day change and so do the thoughts that go along with it. Idk just putting it out there.
Agree, it feels like im way more smarter when i was a kid being able to think of something that no one still did Such as A.I. before it was a hype or a thing, but now i cant even think how did i manage to think like that, make them. Wished i wrote my ideas and how to make them... That way now i can test and polish them Im 20 now
You probably weren't any smarter back then, you just became more self-aware and now you realize how you're lacking. Actually, gaining self-awareness is a sign you've become smarter.
The way they are presenting information and animating it has just elevated to a whole new level. Like pick any other video from 2-3 years ago and compare it with the recent ones! Like I'm not saying that the ones done before are bad. But just wanted to highlight the improvement that they have introduced in the quality of their videos.
If I look back at my 29years of life, I would always pick the 29year old me. I think my ability to learn and concentrate only improves over time. Also the experience and amount of information I hold only increases. But I am only 29. I don't know if this is continuous. I do agree that at certain ages I had a better understanding of certain subjects. Languages and mathematics I never use degrade over time. But relearning those old skills is as easy as reading it once. It's the same as movies. There are movies I haven't seen since I was a child. But just watching the first 5min of that movie brings back the entire movie and information I processed. If aging continues like this, I think I will become a better version of myself. But the catch in this all is that I need a healthy brain and keep practicing my knowledge. My work is solving problems and I think this also has an influence on my brain.
I’m not an expert, but the older people I’ve talked to have said similar things. To them, the only bad thing about aging is your body decaying. Basically, brains seem to work on dragon logic, with older ones being far more powerful. Of course, getting “set in your ways” can be a problem, especially if society has changed too much. For instance, in America, racial segregation ended in 1964. That wasn’t too long ago, and I bet there’s still people who supported it that are still alive today. I don’t think I need to explain why failing to adapt past 1964 is problematic. But maybe there’s some self-fulfilling prophecy here. If you believe that you can get better, you will get better- and you can always learn new things. In fact, there is a gaming UA-cam channel run by an old lady who started gaming relatively recently. I forgot the name though. Honestly, as long as your brain doesn’t start to activity decay you should be fine.
This video is telling us no matter how old we are. Aging concerns many people. people become easily disappointed by the fact of they get old. But I would like to suggest them changing the view of them. What you can obtain at 70 years old is what you can't at 20 years old. Valuable is every age.
There are many factors in play and age, although a factor, it's impact is still debatable. When i turned 28 i started learning languages. I already was a spanish native speaker and learnt english in my teenager years. But when i reahed 28, and after finishing college, i decided to set myself that language learning goal. Now i'm 31 years old, i'm fluent in English, spanish, portuguese, italian and french with German, Japanese, Russian and Hebrew around B1-B2 proficiency, i've even done some part-time jobs as an interpreter because of that achievement which was another new thing i studied and gained, the interpretation skills.
Hi. I am turning 15 soon and have been considering turning my language learning hobby into a career with translation. I am impressed that you learned so many languages in such a short time. Can you give me your method for learning languages?
@@swanepoel4714 Immersion-based learning, i live in Spain and learning english was easy due to the amount of online resources to fully immerse yourself in the language. For the other languages i just had to gain the basics through traditional learning and then challenging myself by visiting said places and forcing myself to read, listen, speak and write in that targeted language. Ofcourse not everyone can afford to travel and live in another country but the internet is an amazing tool to organize yourself into a partially immersed experience. Simple things like changing language settings, watching youtube videos from that language, reading books in their original language and most importantly Discord with dedicated language learning channels to speak directly with people.
@@rorantruong I wanted to say one of epictetus' but didn't remember it so I just said that. Anyway heres the quote I was referring to: "There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things that are beyond your power and will"
Are you 25 in highschool? If not, you're still at a good age to start learning languages. Don't feel sorry for what you've lost, be grateful for what you can have.
0:39 as someone who's been fluent in 2 languages for as long as I can remember, idk why but it's surprising to me when people think speaking two languages is impressive
When it comes to working, initiative is important. No matter what kind of smart you are, if you don't want to take the challenges and responsibilities, it won't develop.
I always say if you want to learn about experiences, talk to an older person. If you want to learn about new things, talk to a kid. Talking to many people is a good strategy to get a wider scope on the world around you. You'd be surprised about the staggering amount of things that shape people into who they are.
I seem to be stuck on the adolescent phase even though I'm 28. I have endless curiosity and find any new information interesting, no matter what field 🤔
@@elvisedison1741 I guess 😅 Although, it's actually led to a problem. Ever since I was a child, I knew everything except what I was supposed to know 😂🔫 I only realized this recently and concluded that I need to start distinguishing between relevant information and irrelevant information. Then prioritize the relevant information accordingly.
@@feynstein1004 Same thing happening with me maybe we share same Myers-Briggs type if you dont know what is your give a online mbti test and tell me the result.
@@riflemanzy2187 I think it has more to do with autism than personality types but sure, I'll take the test and let you know. Did you overcome our problem btw? Like, being well-informed is good. But being well-informed on irrelevant things at the expense of basic practical knowledge is greatly harmful. I call it being anti-smart 😅
And yet 16 year olds can't vote, at least where I'm from. They really should be able to, and being able to provides motivation to learn the difference between good and bad policy from a younger age when learning is easier.
Another thing to note is that people are generally getting smarter, if you put 20 year olds against 20 year olds from 10 years ago in the past in the same competitive test the present ones will win
My teen years were by far my worst, I was generally bad at everything except technical/science type stuff. I believe I had/have a learning disability. I didn't start to shine until my late 20s and now I'm in my mid 30s I amaze myself what I am capable of and feel like I am at peak or heading towards it. It's become obvious now that I'm not neurotypical and that explains why I struggled with all aspects except the mentioned for most of my younger life and excelled later.
I lie, how they used a Rubik’s cube for memory, Rubik’s cubes are surprisingly easy one you only need to learn a couple sequences of moves to shuffle the pieces around!
I felt the “smartest” in terms of neuroplasticity, in my early teens, and I noticed a decline in my ability to think more flexibly once I hit 18. It has gone downhill from there in that department, but my ability to remain calm and think things over, though slower, still does me good.
2:43 Animation 👌 Vera level 😍 Solving the riddles As teenager learn more exploration of more area The ages 8 , 16 , 25 , 45 and 65 More over Age and experience are complicated they can learn each and everyday so the cannot tell this or that age it not barriers 👍
I actually think children are quite intelligent. Well, for me as a child i grew up hearing different languages a lot, from the tv and outside i heard english, and from my parents I heard a different one. But as your a baby, your brain picks up these languages but chooses the one that will be more functionable and needed for them to speak more fluently. For me, I picked up english faster, even though my family didnt (because they didnt grow up hearing english). And later on improved my mother tongue.
The tl;dw is that cognitive flexibility (an aspect of creativity) may be highest in children; “fluid” abilities (e.g., processing speed, reasoning, attention, working memory capacity, spatial ability) peak in our mid-20s; and crystalized abilities (e.g., knowledge) continue to increase throughout our life. So who to pick on your team depends on the nature of the game or test.
I am still in my adolescence and College never fails to question my ‘smartness’ and if I am even a master to one skill. That’s why I’m surprised to learn that it is perfectly normal for adolescents to be jack of all trades.
I felt most smartest at 4-6 years. At four I could read at two languages, count past 1 000, name a huge number of animals, remember the names of all planets, know how the earth is built, and keep up with third class in terms of math. And around 6 years of life I was able to keep up with fifth class math and read binary code. I still (eight class) benefit from it for example reading binary codes. Knowledge was who I am. But now in middle school I feel dumber. Sure, I am still smarter than the idiots around me, but now violence defines me in school. At least what I am at home doesn't changed
TBH, while having experience with nerds at school times and polymaths; I figured out that (1)knowledge and (2)personality are two main factors that could effect your smartness at least in front of others. So, as you were interested in that video, you're keep learning; that what makes you smart. keep learning!
I do feel that the second stage of teenage life i. E. (15-18) is where a person is at his best. But that is the time when he/she is facing different kinds of problem and has the important question to face like what to do with life or what kind of a person he wants to become. I am 18 now and the last two years of my high school were covid impacted and I was not able to study as well as I would have wanted to especially in my favorite subject I. E. Mathematics I am still doing a bachelor in mathematics in college but i feel that losing those two years will have a very high impact on my overall mental capacity of doing maths and logical puzzles later in life.
not necceserily, as there are several traps you might fall into, such as static thinking, unability to adapt or others and also mental diseases can play a part, like alzheimer or demencia which often come with age
TedEd could do better. These are rather arbitrary lists of things each age group is good at. More principled and succinct way to see it is fluid vs. crystalized intelligence, where learning trend moves from former to latter as you age. This is due to decreasing neuroplasticity and can be a bad and a good thing depending on what you decided to crystalize as you age, which is easier said than done.
At 25 the brain is peaking. After that is going downhill. Experience is a very different thing than being at your most intelligent. Einstein did all his revolutionary work before being 24 years old.
Thank you for the Arabic translation of the clip. I follow you from Saudi Arabia and I like your content very much Thank you for the Arabic translation of the clip. I follow you from Saudi Arabia and I like your content very much🙏🙏💙
that explains a lot of stuff... I'm 11 and know 5 languages, english (very well actually!), brazilian portuguese (native), french (in progress), japanese (in progress) and spanish (in progress)
Age and experience complement each other. It helps with learning and improving from mistakes.
Yeah
Ah yes Wisdom
Two sides of the same coin one might say.
complEment
Not really true. Age is a measure of time. Not a quality. Age offers nothing to the mind that time isn't actively erasing. Between 25 and 50 you accumulate as much information as your brain is going to accumulate regardless of the quality of that information. Between 3 and 10, you learn exponentially faster than any other point in your life, but you can also learn the wrong information just as fast.
Age and Experience are both, useless, in isolation. Neither on it's own is inherently beneficial. What is beneficial is Intelligence, or rather, the measure of how quickly you can process and adapt to new information. Experience and Age have no value without intelligent use of that time and experience.
I genuinely believe ages 16-45 are the smartest in terms of developing beneficial practices and ideas. Experience plays a huge role in life, but it can also skew a positive trajectory by “sticking to what you know.” In my career field, medicine, older providers are commonly on a downward trend due to them refusing to “update” their knowledge. If your experiences hinder you from adapting and growing, you are not the peak of intelligence.
That could also be the lead
reminds me of Einstein refusing to accept Quantum Mechanics when he was old
@@wren_. Explain how?
Bro snuck in 16 💀
@@Cinnapupz Why would I not include 16? That’s a prime age for students to begin leadership roles and entrepreneurship. I didn’t include it just for fun.
Not gonna lie... I felt the smartest in my teens. That passion for learning had me reading lots of books, doing activities, and having time to explore. I felt my vocab was at its peak and recall was fast.
What made you feel less smarter after teenage years?
@@JasonMomos I think I got really overloaded in my higher education programs where reading and learning transitioned from something I did for fun to work. I also was in a doctoral program that really drained me straight after my bachelor's. Maybe such a thing as too much learning? Lol
@@droberts5583 so you still remember calculus and chemistry 🤣🤣
I feel like I was at my smartest in terms of being to quickly creatively problem solve, retain information and reason at around 18-19. Feel like in some ways I'm now (age 27) smarter, especially linguistically, but generally I can feel myself getting duller as time goes on.
Think work taking up a large part of my cognitive load is a big factor. I'm still pretty intellectually curious but at the end of a working day I'm now more likely to go for lighter forms of entertainment than I used to.
I believe “The more you know the more you dont know” thats because one might seek more knowledge and realise they know nothing in the process In teenage years you often only know just enough to feel smart, reinforced by being the smartest in your friend groups/schools but that might not enough to want to be smarter
In my experience, 4-year old's have life all figured out. No school, all meals cooked for you, plenty of sleep etc etc...
They can learn 5 different languages simultaneously, figure out mobile phones and even master video games.
Mine's even figured out exactly how far they can push my buttons before I lose my temper.
Yet he still smacks himself on the head when trying to open a bag of snacks.
Yeah and they can be literally care free , no stress, just a peacefully, beautiful absolute perfect life :)
I was in school since 3 so idk what ur saying and before that I was in pre-school
you just decribed a dog my man
@@DEATHGamerStickmanStories Until they throw a temper tantrum for the dumbest reasons.
The smartest age is 8, 16, 25, 65 and everything in between.
People over 65: ...and I took that personally.
Children under 8* Gugu Gaga
It makes sense tho. Because people under 8 and over 65 are less stable.
I hope my friend doesn't come to this channel. She's been awarded a MacArthur Genius grant based on work she'd done in her late sixties. Also funny is that usually the reaction time in a 60 year old is the same as when that person was 20. I suppose much depends on maintaining good enough health.
@@user-pakshibhithi10 I've heard the same said of women.
@@toddboothbee1361 Some people maybe more healthy compared to an avg person. You're friend might be one of them. It depends from person to person, but, on an avg, people under 8 and over 65 are less stable. And, I didn't understand what you wanted to convey by saying "I've heard the same said of women."
i feel like no matter what age i am i’m dumber than i’ve ever been
When you were 4, your sister was half your age, you are now dead what's your sister age?
Only the smartest people can answer this
@@fhinpus 73 and 6 months.
next question please
@@fhinpus 2?
I mean what is now? Is it now as in irl now or as in the theoretical now where I am now 4 and now dead?
@@fhinpus a 99% chance interval to be at 2 until 88
@@fhinpus Half dead. Can't get anything by me
I'm well advanced to my 30s, and I feel smarter every passing year. I hope this keeps going forever and ever
Your knowledge base will grow but your fluid abilities (things like spatial ability, processing speed, attention, working memory, reasoning) have already begun to decline since your early-to-mid 20. (when your frontal lobes fully developed). The decline is pretty slow until your 40s-50s. Google images for “fluid intelligence throughout lifespan” if you’re curious.
Likewise, although I am about to enter my 30s. I think having a passion to learn is what allows us to be better people as learning requires deep self reflection from learning from your mistakes. Attempting to learn subjects that you find difficult allows for a deeper understanding of yourself, your limitations and how you can work through them.
30 is the smartest age. Anyone younger has there brain less developed and less smart. The only reason they can learn and be creative easily is because they have a caretaker that constantly trains em and it’s socially unacceptable for adults to do stuff children do which makes em look more creative. But there brain is actually less developed and less smart. But after 30 people’s brains decline. So 30 is the smartest age.
@@Texan_christian1132 stop lying science says and many sources the brain fully developps at 25 not even 30 you are just making things up with no scientifical source or no source in general because you are probably near 30
That's not at all true. There's many people that have achieved great achievements for humanity in their 40's @Texan_christian1132
In my opinion, I think the peak intelligence for most people is the teenage years. It’s the transition between childhood and adulthood, it’s the time where kids are growing and learning to explore themselves and the world, the time where they form hobbies and be more responsible. It’s also the time where one realizes how vast the world actually is and how there is so much to learn and know. I’m not saying humans are the smartest when they are teens (def not), what I mean is that it’s the time where we actually learn new things and start exploring.
Agreed
But in my opinion anyone can be smart at any age and at any way whether if it is ideas,creative,memory,learning etc etc..
All they need is just logic and try.
Teenage are mentally not very stable, from my experience currently being one.
Sounds good but 30 is the smartest age. Anyone younger has there brain less developed and less smart. The only reason they can learn and be creative easily is because they have a caretaker that constantly trains em and it’s socially unacceptable for adults to do stuff children do which makes em look more creative. But there brain is actually less developed and less smart. But after 30 people’s brains decline. So 30 is the smartest age.
this actually reminds of a study where kids, teens, and adults did a test from nasa themselves.
Most adults failed, half of the teens failed, and most kids passed.
The conclusion they came with is that kids have no consequences for making mistakes and don't fear them at all while teens have fear as they're more or less seen as adults while having creativity similar to a child.
And adults get the short end of the stick as consequences for them messing up can be life changing.
I'd recommend check out the home movies review from emp lemon as he goes into more detail about the Nasa experiment himself.
Just watched it! Thanks for the recommendation, it’s super interesting how elusive yet valuable creativity is in our world today
whats the name of the experiment called?
@@coolcapibara it must be in the video
@@lucky_clover_4 What movie is it? I'd love to watch it
I appreciate the animators, they never run out of new techniques of animation
I feel the smartest right now, currently 28, the overall experience and knowledge just surpasses all me
I could learn the quickest in my teen age years, particularly 15-16, I noticed I picked up skills very fast and mastered them in no time
What kind of skills did you quickly pick up at 15-16?
Ya prime
I have the same question as Silvesta, what kind of skills did you pick up at 15-16? Why do you think you picked them up very quickly and mastered them in no time? What did you do to achieve mastery in those skills you have learned?
Sorry for all the questions, I'm just curious.
@@silvesta5027 Stuff at school, drawing, gaming
I was quite average until my mid 20s. My smartest age started since I was 26. I'm now 30 and it's only getting better
I'm 17 years old, and looking back I don't think I've changed at all over the years. I can remember when I was three, and besides being more optimistic perhaps, I had the same thought process. I'm how I've always been. Perhaps, less happens in my mind than when I was younger, but that is the only change.
I can relate to you. Quite the same.
Sitting at 25, I do feel like I’ve experienced some change since my teenage years, but also that I’ve carried particular modes of thought with me from my preteens all the way into adulthood (there are some parts of my childhood thought process I recall, but I feel like my internal monologue/dialogue was till developing then). But in some cases I’d say it’s situational to lifestyle more than my age, the two just happen to coincide. How I thought about certain things changed when I went to college, then they changed again when 2020 happened and I was at home, then they changed a third time when I got my first full time job. The synapses that fire and the thought processes you need every day change and so do the thoughts that go along with it. Idk just putting it out there.
In my limited experience, I definitely felt more intelligence about 4 years ago. I’m 20 now
I’m 19, can relate. I was on my academic GRIND at 16-17. A-levels are so stressful
"felt" is very scientific :D
The reason is you're just starting to realize how little you really know and how much more you need to learn.
Agree, it feels like im way more smarter when i was a kid being able to think of something that no one still did Such as A.I. before it was a hype or a thing, but now i cant even think how did i manage to think like that, make them. Wished i wrote my ideas and how to make them... That way now i can test and polish them
Im 20 now
You probably weren't any smarter back then, you just became more self-aware and now you realize how you're lacking. Actually, gaining self-awareness is a sign you've become smarter.
The way they are presenting information and animating it has just elevated to a whole new level. Like pick any other video from 2-3 years ago and compare it with the recent ones! Like I'm not saying that the ones done before are bad. But just wanted to highlight the improvement that they have introduced in the quality of their videos.
If I look back at my 29years of life, I would always pick the 29year old me.
I think my ability to learn and concentrate only improves over time. Also the experience and amount of information I hold only increases. But I am only 29. I don't know if this is continuous.
I do agree that at certain ages I had a better understanding of certain subjects. Languages and mathematics I never use degrade over time. But relearning those old skills is as easy as reading it once.
It's the same as movies. There are movies I haven't seen since I was a child. But just watching the first 5min of that movie brings back the entire movie and information I processed.
If aging continues like this, I think I will become a better version of myself. But the catch in this all is that I need a healthy brain and keep practicing my knowledge. My work is solving problems and I think this also has an influence on my brain.
I’m not an expert, but the older people I’ve talked to have said similar things. To them, the only bad thing about aging is your body decaying.
Basically, brains seem to work on dragon logic, with older ones being far more powerful.
Of course, getting “set in your ways” can be a problem, especially if society has changed too much. For instance, in America, racial segregation ended in 1964. That wasn’t too long ago, and I bet there’s still people who supported it that are still alive today. I don’t think I need to explain why failing to adapt past 1964 is problematic.
But maybe there’s some self-fulfilling prophecy here. If you believe that you can get better, you will get better- and you can always learn new things. In fact, there is a gaming UA-cam channel run by an old lady who started gaming relatively recently. I forgot the name though.
Honestly, as long as your brain doesn’t start to activity decay you should be fine.
This video is telling us no matter how old we are. Aging concerns many people. people become easily disappointed by the fact of they get old. But I would like to suggest them changing the view of them. What you can obtain at 70 years old is what you can't at 20 years old. Valuable is every age.
Title: What’s the smartest age?
The video: *proceeds to confuse you*
Just means you're not at your smartest age
"There is no age at which we stop learning"
- Barrin, Tolarian Archmage
Let's all appreciate the animators for such a good animation.
There are many factors in play and age, although a factor, it's impact is still debatable.
When i turned 28 i started learning languages. I already was a spanish native speaker and learnt english in my teenager years. But when i reahed 28, and after finishing college, i decided to set myself that language learning goal.
Now i'm 31 years old, i'm fluent in English, spanish, portuguese, italian and french with German, Japanese, Russian and Hebrew around B1-B2 proficiency, i've even done some part-time jobs as an interpreter because of that achievement which was another new thing i studied and gained, the interpretation skills.
Hi. I am turning 15 soon and have been considering turning my language learning hobby into a career with translation. I am impressed that you learned so many languages in such a short time. Can you give me your method for learning languages?
@@swanepoel4714 Immersion-based learning, i live in Spain and learning english was easy due to the amount of online resources to fully immerse yourself in the language.
For the other languages i just had to gain the basics through traditional learning and then challenging myself by visiting said places and forcing myself to read, listen, speak and write in that targeted language.
Ofcourse not everyone can afford to travel and live in another country but the internet is an amazing tool to organize yourself into a partially immersed experience.
Simple things like changing language settings, watching youtube videos from that language, reading books in their original language and most importantly Discord with dedicated language learning channels to speak directly with people.
I love you TED-Ed ❤, thank you very much for everything you guys have done for us
I'm watching this video from Uzbekistan 🇺🇿
Honestly, I wish I learned more languages as a child. Im in hs now and it would have been easier to learn languages younger yk
There's no reason to care even a little bit about something you can't change.
@@vogeline_ What's that supposed to mean ? i'm confused
@@rorantruong I wanted to say one of epictetus' but didn't remember it so I just said that. Anyway heres the quote I was referring to:
"There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things that are beyond your power and will"
Are you 25 in highschool? If not, you're still at a good age to start learning languages. Don't feel sorry for what you've lost, be grateful for what you can have.
Honestly, if you are serious about this, just do it. You can still learn another language. Start with one and commit ^^
The animation in this video. It's just outstanding
Committing yourself to the expansion of your mind and being willing to cooperate when said mind is insufficient is crucial, I think.
this is the brain's solution to the explore-exploit problem. the closer you are toward the end. the more exploitative strategy you should use
0:39 as someone who's been fluent in 2 languages for as long as I can remember, idk why but it's surprising to me when people think speaking two languages is impressive
Yeah same, learning languages doesnt require that much inteligence just patience and work
Immigrant and children of Immigrant know 2 languages
@@morik207 sadly that would decrease because more and more often people would speak one language and thats english
'm 28 years old, sometimes I start out excited to learn LANGUAGES, or RUN more after a month, I GET DISCOURAGED, but I was 15 and more excited!!!!
When it comes to working, initiative is important. No matter what kind of smart you are, if you don't want to take the challenges and responsibilities, it won't develop.
This is one of the most simple-complicated topic I have ever been.
A year or 2 before humans go through puberty is the most purest human u will ever be.
I always say if you want to learn about experiences, talk to an older person. If you want to learn about new things, talk to a kid. Talking to many people is a good strategy to get a wider scope on the world around you. You'd be surprised about the staggering amount of things that shape people into who they are.
The smartest age is 0 as it has the best chance of not getting ruined by other people
There's no chance. 0 age is a starting point, not a lasting feature. 😊
True that
Love the animation!❤🔥
This animation is so calming! Thank you!
Dear Lord, thank you for Ted-Ed. I've learned so much from them.
I seem to be stuck on the adolescent phase even though I'm 28. I have endless curiosity and find any new information interesting, no matter what field 🤔
That's a good thing
@@elvisedison1741 I guess 😅 Although, it's actually led to a problem. Ever since I was a child, I knew everything except what I was supposed to know 😂🔫 I only realized this recently and concluded that I need to start distinguishing between relevant information and irrelevant information. Then prioritize the relevant information accordingly.
@@feynstein1004 Same thing happening with me maybe we share same Myers-Briggs type if you dont know what is your give a online mbti test and tell me the result.
@@riflemanzy2187 I think it has more to do with autism than personality types but sure, I'll take the test and let you know. Did you overcome our problem btw? Like, being well-informed is good. But being well-informed on irrelevant things at the expense of basic practical knowledge is greatly harmful. I call it being anti-smart 😅
@kestya963 Yeah I'm an INTP-T apparently, whatever that means 😂
I think it doesn’t depend on ages.
Passion and continuity to learn are important for to be smart no matter how old we are.
"There's no single answer."
Me: *clicks off*
And yet 16 year olds can't vote, at least where I'm from. They really should be able to, and being able to provides motivation to learn the difference between good and bad policy from a younger age when learning is easier.
Another thing to note is that people are generally getting smarter, if you put 20 year olds against 20 year olds from 10 years ago in the past in the same competitive test the present ones will win
Easily
That's not on the brain, we had the worst results ever for our national test in 2023 here
I find myself remembering things I thought or believed when I was 8-12 years old and how insightful, logical or philosophical I managed to be.
My teen years were by far my worst, I was generally bad at everything except technical/science type stuff. I believe I had/have a learning disability.
I didn't start to shine until my late 20s and now I'm in my mid 30s I amaze myself what I am capable of and feel like I am at peak or heading towards it. It's become obvious now that I'm not neurotypical and that explains why I struggled with all aspects except the mentioned for most of my younger life and excelled later.
intelligence is not from your experience, its from your ability to absorb and retain information.
thanks for using 5 minutes of my life just to say "theres no single answer"
Thank you so much for making this video!!!
With the speed humans are learning I'm sure a 15 yr old 100 years from today will be as smart as our professors
You could say the same for today, as anybody has access to all the information in the world in the palm of their hands
Can you please make a video on how our taste buds change. I've been wondering how I hated spinach when i was ten but I love it now
But who did he pick?
me
I was smart enough to know this would be a click bait video, fast forwarded to the end to confirm my asumption.
This is amazing like always
This video is one of the best explanations for Zordon's choice in Power Rangers
Legit never thought abt this before
Also love the ozo/ulu riddle cameo!
And the children with the green eyes one!
The narrator is great
The day you realise how little you know in comparison to what there is to Learn. That's the day you start to become Intelligent.
Everyday is smart, if lived consciously, smilingly!
Idk why but this video just gave me an anxiety attack. Now I need to study.
Our brains are still growing keep growing friends
I lie, how they used a Rubik’s cube for memory, Rubik’s cubes are surprisingly easy one you only need to learn a couple sequences of moves to shuffle the pieces around!
I felt the “smartest” in terms of neuroplasticity, in my early teens, and I noticed a decline in my ability to think more flexibly once I hit 18. It has gone downhill from there in that department, but my ability to remain calm and think things over, though slower, still does me good.
2:43 Animation 👌 Vera level 😍 Solving the riddles As teenager learn more exploration of more area The ages 8 , 16 , 25 , 45 and 65 More over Age and experience are complicated they can learn each and everyday so the cannot tell this or that age it not barriers 👍
Tamila?
@@aruneshprasannasekar9038 aama. vera level nu sonnan 😂
IT WAS THE FRIENDS WE MADE ALONG THE WAY!!!!! AHHHHHHH
It's 4:06 for people with my attention span
thank you so much
Thabsk youu
Thanks
Amazing video TED-Ed :]
Love the animations!
I swear, I didn't expect to see my name (Amir) when I clicked on a TedEd video. This is amazing. XD
I actually think children are quite intelligent. Well, for me as a child i grew up hearing different languages a lot, from the tv and outside i heard english, and from my parents I heard a different one. But as your a baby, your brain picks up these languages but chooses the one that will be more functionable and needed for them to speak more fluently. For me, I picked up english faster, even though my family didnt (because they didnt grow up hearing english). And later on improved my mother tongue.
The tl;dw is that cognitive flexibility (an aspect of creativity) may be highest in children; “fluid” abilities (e.g., processing speed, reasoning, attention, working memory capacity, spatial ability) peak in our mid-20s; and crystalized abilities (e.g., knowledge) continue to increase throughout our life. So who to pick on your team depends on the nature of the game or test.
That is because you are at a lower part of the dunning-kruger curve, you know enough to know that you don't know a lot.
You get stronger day by day learn new things Day by day
I am still in my adolescence and College never fails to question my ‘smartness’ and if I am even a master to one skill. That’s why I’m surprised to learn that it is perfectly normal for adolescents to be jack of all trades.
OMG the animation is so awesome
I felt most smartest at 4-6 years. At four I could read at two languages, count past 1 000, name a huge number of animals, remember the names of all planets, know how the earth is built, and keep up with third class in terms of math. And around 6 years of life I was able to keep up with fifth class math and read binary code. I still (eight class) benefit from it for example reading binary codes. Knowledge was who I am.
But now in middle school I feel dumber. Sure, I am still smarter than the idiots around me, but now violence defines me in school. At least what I am at home doesn't changed
I think it is very good tedtalk I feel calm myself during tedtalk
I'm an Indian, by the time I was 3, I was fluent in 3 languages, like most kids in my class.
TBH, while having experience with nerds at school times and polymaths; I figured out that (1)knowledge and (2)personality are two main factors that could effect your smartness at least in front of others. So, as you were interested in that video, you're keep learning; that what makes you smart. keep learning!
Smartest versus wisest.
For me, having the right perception can be called smart💞
I do feel that the second stage of teenage life i. E. (15-18) is where a person is at his best.
But that is the time when he/she is facing different kinds of problem and has the important question to face like what to do with life or what kind of a person he wants to become.
I am 18 now and the last two years of my high school were covid impacted and I was not able to study as well as I would have wanted to especially in my favorite subject I. E. Mathematics
I am still doing a bachelor in mathematics in college but i feel that losing those two years will have a very high impact on my overall mental capacity of doing maths and logical puzzles later in life.
I think my brain works best when I'm emotionally active. Like when I'm angry
Age of death is the smartest age
Because learning never stops.
not necceserily, as there are several traps you might fall into, such as static thinking, unability to adapt or others and also mental diseases can play a part, like alzheimer or demencia which often come with age
it's 100 years old. Experience rocks!
Well according to my twelve year old cousin twelve is the smartest age
I love this new content but it is still informational
You are a very good videographer. The video was perfect, keep it up. ;)
Nobody talking about the animation of the queen slaying the king😂
Cute animation 😍
Done for Gabriela.I speak 3 languages and I'm also an outside the box thinker
I'll save you 4:52 minutes of your life.
"There is no good answer"
Actually, the best answer is 8-65 years old
Thanks 🫠
good session
TedEd could do better. These are rather arbitrary lists of things each age group is good at. More principled and succinct way to see it is fluid vs. crystalized intelligence, where learning trend moves from former to latter as you age. This is due to decreasing neuroplasticity and can be a bad and a good thing depending on what you decided to crystalize as you age, which is easier said than done.
I love to have learnt English at 29 years old 🎉 ich auch deutsche lerne ❤
All the 15 y\o's named "Amir" watching this: 💀🤐
At 25 the brain is peaking. After that is going downhill. Experience is a very different thing than being at your most intelligent. Einstein did all his revolutionary work before being 24 years old.
Smartest age would be around the "critical age". That where you learn everything faster.
Thank you for the Arabic translation of the clip. I follow you from Saudi Arabia and I like your content very much Thank you for the Arabic translation of the clip. I follow you from Saudi Arabia and I like your content very much🙏🙏💙
3:34 Ted Ed riddles!
Thank you TED-Ed ❤
People over 65 : sad noises
that explains a lot of stuff... I'm 11 and know 5 languages, english (very well actually!), brazilian portuguese (native), french (in progress), japanese (in progress) and spanish (in progress)