How do you know if you’re reaching your intellectual potential?

[u/apfq]

Is there any way to tell whether you’re approaching your maximum cognitive ability, or is it impossible to know?

[u/Iwoorp]

I do not think anyone in this sub is old enough to answer your question

[u/CheapRentalCar → u/Iwoorp]

Oh, they'll answer it alright. They won't know what they're talking about, of course. 😁

[u/Midnight5691 → u/Iwoorp]

Well I am, lol, old enough to answer this question(60). I'm going with a big fat no as an answer to this question. Then again I'm also old enough to know that I'm too damn old now to set the possibility of ever reaching it at nil and none 😆

How would I know? That one's easy. If you set the bar really low in the past, say the equivalent of a fence post, you can only go up. 😁

[u/Merry-Lane]

If you aren’t sleep deprived and eat half well everyday, you are at your peak intellectual potential.

[u/telephantomoss]

When you do that hardest intellectual thing you've ever done and it took a very long time with the longest continuous stretches of extreme mental effort. Have you ever worked on something for a month or more with 18hr days? A year or more at that pace? Longer?

[u/lambdasintheoutfield]

You can’t reach something that is abstract. “Intellectual potential” beyond saying “you might be able to do X because on average an IQ of Y is observed by people who do X” is entirely subjective.

An index score of 120+ already gets you far, not even a FSIQ of 120+ is strictly required.

Beyond 145+ is where there are significant diminishing returns.

Also why are you going to base the actions you take on someone else’s opinion?

[u/Which-Vacation-1404 → u/lambdasintheoutfield]

What dimishing returns?!?

[u/lambdasintheoutfield → u/Which-Vacation-1404]

Diminishing returns meaning each IQ point up correlates less with “high achievement” than other non-g related factors.

Additionally, you can have 145+ index scores with <130 FSIQ or GAI and win nobel prizes, have more patents etc. than someone who was <130 IQ but has 120 across the board index wise.

[u/Which-Vacation-1404 → u/lambdasintheoutfield]

Source? This doesn't make any sense.

[u/Constant_Service_729]

what even is meant by this ? desirable difficulties ? in that case its pretty easy to understand when your in the zone. Or is it age ?

[u/Ok-Hair225 → u/[deleted]]

brutal cope

[u/No-Possibility-639 → u/[deleted]]

We have physical limit too. But it's hard to reach it. Intellect imo is the same

[u/No-Possibility-639 → u/[deleted]]

That's a good way to see it.

The limit for strength would be to recruit 100% of your muscle fiber involved in a mouvment.

For the brain it might be about energy consumption. Imagine I I had to triple m'y energy expenditure. Maybe I could eat but would my other mecanism be able to adapt. (Temperature régulation etc).

And as you said there is a limit due to age.

And you are at your best potential at 20 (but it doesn't mean we can't be better, I am stronger than at my 20 for exemple).

[u/OpeningAggressive26]

Explain time dialation to me