Lets ignore the economics and the time of it, I am just asking a pure scientific question about the human brain.

Say a 40 year old wanted to become a doctor. Yes he would need to go to university, go to med school, go to residency and if he does all that he might be able to be a doctor at 60, work for 10 years and retire, meaning it wouldn't be that feasible.


However, purely in terms of brain neuroplasticity. Is it possible? Assume this person has the IQ to be a competent doctor, he just never applied himself and just lived in his means and was comfy. But one day just for shits and giggles he wanted to do that.


How much of a detriment is having a 40 year old brain compared to a 20 year old, in going to school and becoming a literal competent functioning high end doctor.

Could be a doctor, or a lawyer, or a programmer, etc etc.

>>16698036 (OP)
Depends what he was doing for the last 40 years. Are we assuming this is some 40 year old brain transported into the body of a high school student or what?

>>16698038
just some random 40 year old guy working a blue collar or kitchen job

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>>16698045
You’re fucked completely then. There is no way you can keep up with such a curriculum at 40 if you haven’t used your brain in the past 20 years.

>>16698856
There are literal 40 year old meth addicts who go to rehab, get clean, go to university and become doctors and lawyers.

Its rare and harder, but you are completely ignorant if you think a 40 year old can't learn new things or a college degree.

>>16698856
Also everyone uses their brain everyday. You use your brain when you cross the street or play a strategy game.

>muh academic atrophy
Not a thing.

The learning side of things would be difficult but some 40 year olds could do it. Residency is what's going to be the major filter. Far fewer are going to be able to endure that grueling process than could get through the academic part of things.

>>16698892
You’re a fucking retard. This isn’t 1985 you stupid old faggot. In 2025 you are never getting into med school against the other applicants with perfect GPAs and resumes. It’s clear you don’t work in the industry or have a degree.

>>16698898
> In 2025 you are never getting into med school against the other applicants with perfect GPAs and resumes.

Quick someone tell him how black people and Indians need lower GPA and lower SATs and lower MCATS to become doctors.

>>16698898
>its impossible for a 40 year old to have a perfect GPA
yawn
>resumes
Age has nothing to do with a resume. What fucking drugs are you on? Have you ever made a resume?

>>16698898
Just go to the Caribbean. Plenty of MDs and DOs in the US have degrees from those schools.

>>16698856
>>16698898
Ignore this retard.

Yes neuroplasticity is a thing.

For the same reason that a 10 year old can a master chess faster and easier than a 40 year old can. You are going to have these same difficulties.

However, someone who thinks that a 40 year old can't become a grandchess master is a fucking retard who has no functional understanding of how the brain works.

Not being easier != impossible.

Like the other anon said, there are literal meth addicts and heroin junkies who become clean and become doctors and lawyers.

Also blacks can become doctors so I don't see how a 40 year old europeon couldn't.

>>16698901
>hmm I have a spot open for med school
>will I give it to Dequan, a niggerjew mutt with a 4.3 average who plays football and has his whole life in front of him, or to Boris the janitor pedophile who scrimped a 3.8 in night school at community college
ROFL you old farts make me laugh. I can’t wait enough for the next 10 years, you will all be poor and on the street

>>16698907
Dequan actually has a GPA of 3.2 but the spot will go to him since they need it for their diversity quotas.

>>16698907
>nigger with 4.3 GPA
If you are going to bait atleast make it realistic.

>but that doesn't happen.
Harvard and other ivy leagues are literally getting sued for allowing blacks in with lower SATs while holding whites and asians to higher standards.

>>16698907
>all 40 year olds are pedophiles
Are you going to kill yourself before then Mr. Tranny?

>>16698907
OP asked about if it was possible, not about the feasibility of doing it.

>old farts
Literally only 80 year olds say this
> can’t wait enough for the next 10 years, you will all be poor and on the street

Just curious. What evidence do you have to think every single old person in the world is going to be poor and on the street? Can you please list your sources as to why you think

all old people will be homeless in 10 years?

There are rich boomers living in better houses than you are. How are they going to become homeless?

>>16698856
Do you think that after you leave school your brain just shuts off?

Fucking retard. You use your brain everytime you cross the street, take a shower, decide what you want to wear, meet a new person.

How are young people this fucking stupid.

>>16698856
>if you haven’t used your brain in the past 20 years.

The only people who haven't use their brains in 20 years are people living in 20 year long comas. And even those people don't have brain atrophy.

>>16698916
Based retard thinks 20 years of washing dishes is analogous to 20 years of research and study. I think it’s more about lying to yourself rather than lying to OP.

>>16698917
How long ago were you 20? Do you think some construction job retard can walk into a lecture hall and understand the material in the way you could? ROFL, maybe at your shithole 3rd world university but not in the states

>>16698920
Do you know what hobbies that 40 year old dishwasher does?

If he comes home gets high and stares at the wall all night you might be right.

If he reads books, watches podcast, plays cardgames other strategy games etc etc etc. That is more than enough to keep the brain going good enough to get a fucking medical degree.

He already said assuming OP already had the IQ to do it in the first place.

Also your opinion is already discarded as being worthless for thinking Dequan has a 4.3 GPA. If you are going to bait, don't out yourself as a mutt or a mutt lover.

>>16698922
If the 40 year old has a high enough IQ absolutely.

Do you think that 20 year old females have a leg up on a male just because they are 20 years younger?

>>16698922
If niggers and females can do it how couldn't a 40 year old white male with a high enough IQ not do it?

Please answer this question.

als

>>16698922
>yale has literal black females at the school
>construction workers are all dumb mindless hicks

>>16698856
Are you saying its impossible for a high IQ 40 year old to learn new things?
Of course you are not saying that. So why bait?

>>16698856
Actually studies show that cognitive decline doesn't happen until around 60 years old. And even then its not a hard drop. It depends on many factors including health, genetics, IQ, and day to day actives.

You are clearly talking out of your ass if you think boomer mind fatigue starts by the time you are 40 years old.


Futhermore. Studies show that will 20 year olds learn faster. Older adults learn with more depth, which leads to better long term retention and contextual understanding.

Yes OP is going to have a harder time than if he did it at 20. But assuming he already has the IQ to do it. And ASSUMING he doesn't have alzheimers yet, there is literally zero reason to think he couldn't.

I would bet 100 dollars you are one of those zoomer tranny queer degenerates who think that youth is inherently superior to age.

>>16698856
>40 year olds and 80 year old geriatrics are the same thing

Zoomers scare me everyday.

>>16698920
I'd rather trust a dishwasher with a complicated task than a PhD student in gender studies or African dance theory.

hot take, but I think most of the physical/mental 'deficiencies' people experience have a strong correlation to being subjected to unfavorable substances throughout their environment; some side effects might manifest more significantly due to what type and how much of the substances the individual is exposed to.

>>16698856
>>16698898
>>16698907
>>16698920
>>16698922
go to bed douglas murrey

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>>16698036 (OP)
If he's actually competent enough, who cares? His individual economic suffering matters very little compared to the gain on society of having a doctor for..let's say he lives until 60, and he graduates from all training programs on time. So let's say he is a fully fledged doctor at 50.
Who cares that he doesn't recoup his investments? The banks? Fuck those faggots. Fiat currency was a mistake.