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Originally Posted by silicon toad2000  I was recently reading up on REM sleep and brain development and I found a few articles that stated the human brain develops it hard wiring well into the teens and sometimes into the early 20's.
I would suggest you start training your brain to learn again. I don't think you'll get that 140 IQ back as those neural pathways which are not used are discarded by the brain, but your brain may still be forming new ones.
The main thing is to maintain a passion for learning and knowledge. Someone with a 100iq with a passion for learning new things will go much further in lifer than someone with a 140iq who is not interested in learning new things. |
I dont think anyone "loses their IQ for good" (dementia and other brain disease cases excluded).
If someone is born with the potential to reach a 140 IQ then it will never be lost, at most the person can lose the "brain muscles" by not training them but can recover it as soon as one trains them back.
Everybody has a certain potential to which degree one's IQ can go by training the brain muscles, at least thats how i believe it works. If one is born with a 140 IQ, one might be able to go even further but can go down, so lets say the person can go from 120 IQ to 160 IQ, being the average 140 IQ.
By the way, IMO, some may be able to push their IQs up even in a bigger size of range, while at the same time also being susceptible to having their IQs lower a lot inside this big range, maybe thats the case of palimpsest.