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IQ is flexible.
While age does effect neuroplasticity, any brain will develop networks according to environmental stimuli.
When you see people 'break down' they are actually at a moment of extreme(for them) neuroplasticity and are panicknig because it is unfamiliar territory and they may fear they cannot keep up with it or that they will lose what they have already established. As old networks in the brain may be decaying from disuse and new networks formed at a very rapid pace.(Comparitively)
A brain with higher neuroplasticity, or that has frequented states of high neuroplasticity more often, will naturally do better at any event it is unprepared for.
A brain with lower neuroplasticity which has not needed to frequent high plasticity states will not do so well at new things and will usually seek a return to lower effort states with comfortable pathways already formed during any event it is unprepared for.
Therefore, it seems to me, it is most desirable to try new things as frequently as possible to develop the necessary chemical balances and foundational pathways for engaging in high plasticity states in order to be prepared for changes in stimuli.
And, i think, the age-plasticity correlation is due to the way people behave in their later years. Not because of any actual biological limitations on the chemicals necessary for plasticity. There is simply less incentive to try new things as we get older and most become increasingly unhealthy not only because of the effects of age, but the exposure to environmental toxins.
>tl;dr static iq is a meme, you can train yourself to do anything, age-based learning is FUD, smoothbrains are a meme, activity is the necessity for intelligence

>anybody else suffer from chronic honking/honkening?

>Every honking day is a new honk

>As a clown, you always need to honk to everyone about it. Everyone is delighted by a clown with infinite honks. "Just clown up!" honk, i feel physically envigorated after a 30 minute honkening and have to rest my sides. Every moment of every honking day is accompanied by a backround level of psychic honk that varies from "honk honk" to "honkecidal". Everything honks, sleeping always honks, exercise always honks, socializing is honkening, meditation always honks, dietary intervention can honk. Vitamins can honk. I feel like i could honk for a year and it wouldn't be enough. I've felt honked for 15 honking years.

>Is there anybody out there who honking HONKS or am i completely honking alone in this clown world?