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Do the things I and most of us do... make us permanently dumber?

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FearoftheNight

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I've always been considered a bright kid by everyone who's ever taught or studied with me...I've been in either specialized programs or schools ever since I was in the third grade....

Now I suspect that I have been permanently dumbed down during h.s and the first year of college....
From not taking care of my body...not exercising right anymore....not eating right.....not sleeping.....pulling alot of all nighters and depriving my body of sleep over the long term......like 2-3 hrs of sleep a day for weekdays then maybe 10 a nite for weekends somtimes.....

I smoke and drink but not too excessively.....

I feel that this abuse on my body has permanently diminished my abilities.....does anyone know if that happens to people who do what i did?

am I....dumber? Is the damage permanent?
 
Oh, sorry I forgot your original question, ever since I've started college I've been staying up all night, drinking, smoking....I must have permanent brain damage. 🙁

😉
 
We have no concept of your intelligence before you started this downward spiral.

If you feel like you're dumber.. you probably are. 😛
 
So hard to get a straight answer...

1. I'm not referring to IQ.
2. Dumber is subjective. But briain ability and agility. What about memory? Maybe not quantitative measurement is availible but qualitative ones are.
 
I can agree with your feeling. I got a 31 on my ACT(I think... not SAT.. I can't remember!), 3.9 GPA in High school and a 4.0 in the 30 credits of college I took while in High School. My first year of college I ended up with like a 2.25 😕 Now I don't believe I'm dumber(thought the thought does occur to me sometimes), I think simply a different mentality was needed and I didn't adapt well enough.


*edit*
I did do the all-nighter thing ALL THE TIME, but I didn't drink or smoke at all.
 
I know the feeling. I wouldn't call it dumber. I would say you are slower. And that's because it's too easy to slack off in college. Want to make your brain feel "agile" again? Work it more.

dfi
 
This could just mean your High school had easy grading and your college is tough.
Your overalll abilities might always have been that same level.


Originally posted by: Locke
I can agree with your feeling. I got a 31 on my ACT(I think... not SAT.. I can't remember!), 3.9 GPA in High school and a 4.0 in the 30 credits of college I took while in High School. My first year of college I ended up with like a 2.25 😕 Now I don't believe I'm dumber(thought the thought does occur to me sometimes), I think simply a different mentality was needed and I didn't adapt well enough.


*edit*
I did do the all-nighter thing ALL THE TIME, but I didn't drink or smoke at all.
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Anyway, I don't think your intelligence or abilities decrease so quickly with time (unless you smoke or do drugs or sniff glue,etc) but I do think that people tend to become lazier as they get older and their brain learns to take short cuts
Or just quit a lot faster.

As for myself, I thought I was pretty smart in college, but I did engineering, and now I'm in the public service writing policy papers and I feel like a total idiot sometimes...


 
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