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At what age do adolescents and teenagers begin to think like adults? (bigthink.com)

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[–] AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I mean, some adults in their 40s seem to think like adolescents and teenagers, so maybe never...

There's a point where you reach peak mental state and then begins to decline due to senescence. Senescence itself is considered to begin during adulthood, around your 20s. Afterwards, it's really a tradeoff of what you and your life experiences do to stave it off. Trying to avoid being overweight, drug abuse, and other negative health habits can lower the rate at which senescence occurs, while trying to feed your mind and body with engaging and challenging activities that can help improve them will also help you stimulate and increase your mental faculties, increasing the cap senescence needs to reach before it catches up. Like the article says, your mind can still keep on changing well into your thirties, but there's no fixed age, rather, you determine it