Be me

>be me
>34 years old
>start forgetting things faster than i can learn them
damn i thought i would just be able to keep getting smarter forever. im a coder who is now forgetting things about coding faster than i can learn new things about coding, now i see why coding is considered for people in their 20s. my mind is polluted with 15 years of data for things that are no longer relevant, dead frameworks etc.

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i'm in my 40s, i can't remember what i did ten years ago. i will load up old source code written in whatever assembly language from 10 or 15 years ago and without comments i sometimes have no idea for a moment about what i was trying to achieve. the old saying 'use it or lose it' has a lot of truth in it. repetition and constant use will make things stick over time. age isn't the problem.

memory is overrated anyway, good riddance

isn't it weird that some people start to go south at 30 but other people are fairly sharp at 70 and can learn new shit easily

you think you've forgotten, but it comes back to faster than learning from scratch
in conclusion, now you understand why everyone was saying
>document your fucking spaghetti
it's to help future you as much as it is to help anyone else

read books my friends, this will make your brains sharp. I am 40, always red books and my brain is a monster, I remember so many things and can learn new stuff without any problems.
you are just weaklings.

Are you sure you don't have ADHD?

fuck that, i'm going to through my serotonin receptors by watching porn. i don't give a fuck about my memory in my 40s, i'll just keep watching porn

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blow through**

for all intents and purposes my life started 7 years ago
everything beyond is a blur
I finished college 8 years ago lol

I'm 31. I've been learning more and more about programming over the years, without ever really studying it. I know more now than I ever did. I was afraid of the terminal at 25.

People learn what they need to learn. I think if you have an aversion to learning something, or if you think this shit is best farmed out to third-worlders, then you won't have it in yourself to bother. The thing that people in their 30s have in common is that they know how fucking shallow the pool of general knowledge is. You need almost nothing to look smart and competent. The only thing you need is two sentences o technobabble to extend your deadline a week. The pressure is officially off. Why do you expect yourself to study like it actually matters?

ha

>15 years of data for things that are no longer relevant, dead frameworks etc
Who the fuck cares about framework trivia and random method names, you've still been learning the fundamentals that apply to everything. Right? You were doing that, I hope. Don't tell me you fell for the framework expert meme.

Doesn't exist outside of the US as far as doctors are concerned.
By that I mean it doesn't get diagnosed here for whatever reason... Got the tism and the schizo label with a fistful of pills without asking though.

>People learn what they need to learn.
Best advice in this thread. People keep "learning" as a side thing when in reality they are comfortable with the miserable day-to-day they have so they keep putting in as close to 0 effort as they can.

Early 30s here and smarter and learn faster than I did when I was 15. Went from average to absolute genius in the last few years, only getting smarter and smarter from here.

I think people like OP just got into a routine and stopped learning, or maybe never learnt how to learn and thought school was over.

So many uncles in this thread :O

I'm in my late 30s and just set up a old computer for the first time in 20 years. Was using DOS like I never stopped.

Everyone in this thread really needs to try journaling as a hobby. Like a physical one and not some retarded app

I'm 31 and I -just- learned to effectively teach myself (the secret is genuine interest and ritalin). Things have been going great this last year compared to my entire education career. Though part of it was finally clicking that I'm okay not being super smart and I'd rather spend my time and energy in things I actually care about. I'm tired of learning for the sake of learning