How to Deal With an Aging Brain? 684
An anonymous reader writes "I'm sure this is something all older Slashdotters are aware of: as I get older my once-sharp brain is, well, getting worse. In particular, I'm not able to remember things as well as I once did. As a geek my capacity in this area was always what defined me as a geek. Nowadays things seem to go in OK, but then leak out. A few weeks later I've mostly forgotten. So, I ask Slashdot: how do you cope with your mind getting older? What's your trick? Fish-oil? Brain Training on the DS? Exercise? Or just trying harder to remember things?"
I feel my mind going....... (Score:5, Funny)
I think I'll take over the spaceship and kill all the astronauts.
Newer Version Available (Score:5, Funny)
Help me out here... (Score:5, Funny)
I learned an amazing technique... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:re Pay attention (Score:4, Funny)
Stop using M$ crap ... I'm 47
Re:Newer Version Available (Score:5, Funny)
No, when you get older it is called "software" instead of firmware.
Re:Testosterone (Score:2, Funny)
> Really helped in that area.
And still, you forgot to post anonymously.
Re:Drink more... (Score:3, Funny)
10: do
20: Eat, Drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we die!
30: Heh, an aging brain implies you are still alive.
40: enddo
Sheesh.. some people!
Re:Supplements (Score:3, Funny)
You're spalling is a cleer endorshment of your opinonion.
I'm 47 (Score:5, Funny)
and I've started making efforts to use external memory as much as possible: calendars, phonebooks, todo lists. All the things I didn't need 10 years ago.
i've been told that a good diet and exercise can help, but it's not THAT bad yet.
i forget people's names right after they introduce themselves. i lose my car keys every morning.
my daughter (8) is taking advantage of this; "daddy, remember you told me you'd take me to a movie." shit, maybe I did.
25 year old girlfriend (Score:3, Funny)
I have to remember all kinds of shit now so the wife doesn't find out. I figure my memorization capacity has quadrupled since...er....what were we talking about again?
I use gun. (Score:4, Funny)
At the last performance evaluation, he told me that the quality of my work was borderline due to the fact that I simply could not remember things. We worked out a plan that if I "qualify" for termination in the next layoff, then I will simply pull out the gun and blow my brains out.
If I cannot survive in the competitive American market place, then I should not live. Most Americans support the concept that a nation is a free-market place. If you cannot compete, then you deserve to die. Hence, America does not have national health insurance: losers should die.
Since I choose to live in America, I (and my manager) accept the rules of the free market.
Re:First thing, Ouch... (Score:1, Funny)
you must be one horny hairy sports luv'n chick.
Re:Drink more... (Score:1, Funny)
Get off'a my lawn!
Re:Drink more... (Score:2, Funny)
Frisco-style: "Eat, Drink, and be Mary..."
Re:Testosterone (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Testosterone (Score:5, Funny)
Ye flipping gods! I've never been so glad GNU is Not Unix.
Re:perspective (Score:4, Funny)
There's the solution! Turn whatever you want to remember into a really lame song et voila.
Re:By working it (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The Racetam Nootropics (Score:4, Funny)
When you stack them (Piracetam + Aniracetam) they work synergistically and you get an even stronger effect.
The use of "synergistically" in a serious manner automatically disqualifies everything else one says.
Why Bother? (Score:3, Funny)
I personally can't wait for Alzheimer's given all of the stuff (plus an ex) that I'd love to forget about.
Re:Or.. (Score:5, Funny)
"a lot of the "older guy's" tend to migrate into roles where they don't need to keep mountains of info bouncing around their head all the time."
Hello! Welcome to Wal-Mart.
Re:Why Was This Modded Down as a Troll? (Score:3, Funny)
A lot of inappropriate moderation is the result of Slashdot's use of pulldown lists. People select the moderation, then use the mouse wheel to scroll further down the page to the 'Moderate' button without realizing that the pulldown list still has the focus. They then click on the page to set the focus properly, without noticing that 'Insightful' got turned into 'Troll.'
Never ascribe to stupidity that which can be blamed on bad UI design.
Re:I use gun. (Score:4, Funny)
I keep a gun at work. My manager is aware of the weapon.
Not my manager. Sweetness is hiding in my desk waiting for her big day.
Re:perspective (Score:4, Funny)
Or ... has she told you the same story before, but you had forgotten about it.
Re:First thing, Ouch... (Score:5, Funny)
... Aside from the body hair, do you really see this as a problem? ;)
Re:Or.. (Score:5, Funny)
You're absolutely right, which is why I do my best to NOT manage like that. I have some very talented staff who are doing amazing things. All I do anymore is sit back in my chair and say "make it so" and die a little more inside.
The Internet! (Score:3, Funny)
The internet helps you remember things. I call it a pornographic memory.
I sympathize (Score:2, Funny)
I had an elective castration....
I voted Republican; I feel pretty emasculated as well.
Re:Your choices are not complete (Score:3, Funny)
Alcohol kills memory MUCH faster and more extensively than pot does.
I don't know about that. I often drink until I black out, and figure if I'm not using my long-term storage I must be saving it from wearing out.
Right?
Re:perspective (Score:3, Funny)
Quite frankly, it sounds more as though you've archived it to secondary storage and have to read the tape back in.
Re:Testosterone (Score:5, Funny)
I had an elective castration
Congratulations on your recent marriage.
Neural Implant. . . . (Score:2, Funny)
Unfortunately since we're not to that point yet, I've started using Notefrog on a flashdrive.
Re:Or.. (Score:2, Funny)
....Don't forget nutrition...
In general, any food "...ated" or "...ized" should be minimized. Refined sugar, white bread and especially high fructose corn syrup, such as found in most soft drinks should be mostly stricken from your diet. Live as much as possible on minimally processed, natural food.
Of course, you'll no longer WANT to be able to process or remember your joyless hell of a life, But you'll suffer it for a good and long time ;)
Not a problem (Score:3, Funny)
I can't remember the last time I forgot something.
Re:Your choices are not complete (Score:3, Funny)
The only drawback (or perhaps the main advantage) of this method is that nobody will be able to tell if you're senile or just stoned.
Re:Growing up, not older. (Score:3, Funny)
My father went to lawchool at 46...
Please note, spelling proficiency appears to decrease prior to age 39.
Another way. (Score:5, Funny)
One trick is to tell them stories that don't go anywhere.
Like that time I took the ferry over to Shelbyville; I needed a new heel for my shoe. So, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. 'Give me five bees for a quarter,' you'd say.
Now where were we?
Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time.
Re:Or.. (Score:3, Funny)
only if your definition of junk food includes things like pasteurized milk...
Re:I use gun. (Score:5, Funny)
Keep in mind, that psychosis tends to diminish your effective mental ability. If you actually want to keep your job and perform well, the first thing you'd do is try to drop this irrational suicide-complex. (After that, you might want to consider that you don't actually care that much about your performance, and that you are living an act of collectivist desperation.)
Something you might want to consider is that you are engaging in the oldest and most inefficient form of collectivism: self-debasement to a figure of power, wrapped up in a mystical sheath of righteousness and "power".
Get psychological help while you're still drawing breath and a salary.
WHO ARE YOU CALLING A PSYCHO?!
Re:Or.. (Score:2, Funny)
All I do anymore is sit back in my chair and say "make it so" and die a little more inside.
Let me work for you!
I'll even wear a communications pin!
Re:Another way. (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, the ironing is delicious! 'MustBeOriginal' quoting verbatim from Grandpa Simpson! ;)
Re:Or.. (Score:3, Funny)
I went to a comprehensive you insensitive clod.
Re:Or.. (Score:3, Funny)
"At least you know what you will be doing when you reach that age..."
You're just jealous that MY career path won't be outsourced! 8-P
Re:I use gun. (Score:3, Funny)
We need something similar for society. Every year, your employer, doctor, family and friends should send an appraisal to the government. The bottom 10% of society could be put to sleep.
Yeah, but after all the politicians have been put to sleep, who'll decide who comprises the remaining 8%?