>>7631544Basically, yeah. Not just art, either; any cognitively involved, mentally taxing activity keeps your brain working properly. The brain is a muscle, and like any muscle, it degrades if not used. This is why alzheimers and other neurodegenerative diseases only really started picking up steam after the mass-adoption of the television. (That's not to say people didn't go senile at all before the magic box existed, but it's definitely had an upswing in this and the last century.)
In good news, while it's not as mentally stimulating as drawing or reading a book or solving puzzles, video games as an active and (relatively) mentally challenging, rather than passive form of entertainment, like television, may reverse this trend somewhat.
>>7633156If you're going to be like that, then what are you doing on an internet forum about drawing?!
>>7633437>but because they don't act like Juniors and they have too much life experience.This is what people actually mean (unless they're retards who mindlessly regurgitate shit) when they say you can't teach an old dog new tricks. The thing is about seniors (in the employment sense, not the 65+ sense) is that, yeah, they've already got a head full of notions and preconcieved ideas on how something should be done and this makes retraining them and forcing them to change their outlook, especially if the person training them is younger (which, you're literally wired not to listen to younger people or take them seriously) then everyone's just going to have a hard time overall. This is why people generally prefer new grads who know nothing, because you can fill their head with everything you need, rather than having veterans who already think they know everything, and, more importantly, think they know where the limits lie.
