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Are These the Best Years of Your Life?

2007-09-18 11:00:55 / 个人分类：人生

New Roman" color=#ff9900 size=3>        The ups and downs of life may seem to have no predictable plan.
7VxKK~7J-l\0But scientists now know there are very definite life patterns that almost
8H U0YT,h!S:V9D0all people share.Today,when we live 20 years longer than our
great-grandparents,and when women mysteriously outlive men by seven
years,it is clearer than ever that the "game of life " is really a game of
trade-offs.As we age,we trade strength for ingenuity,speed for thoroughness,
and passion for reason.These exchanges may not always seem fair,but at
3S'c*}r.Q(u7t0every age,there are some advantages.So it is reassuring to note that even
if you've passed some of your "prime",you still have other prime years to
bP:hQjDg0experience in the future.Certain important primes seem to peak later in time.
9B}j1Z6FK0       WHEN ARE YOU SMARTEST?From 18 to 25,according to IQ scores;
but you are more experienced with increasing age.You're sharpest in your 20's;
?:jjb*OFGU0around 30,memory begins to decline,particularly your ability to perform
Do+~ Y5L2X0mathematical computations."But your IQ for other tasks climbs,
)D5EW,yI%H&Kr_0"says Berkeley psychologist Arthur Jensen.Your vocabulary at age 45,
for exmple,is three times as great as when you graduated from college.At 60,
Pc,g&e p$ky0your brain possesses almost four times as much information as it did at age 21.
This trade-offs between sharpness and wisdow has led psychologist Dr.
Leoppold Bellak to suggest that "maturity quotients"(MQs instead of IQs)
be adopted for adults.
       WHEN ARE YOU HEALTHIEST?For men,from 15 to 25,"says New
v7? C"}X"{C9Xi0York internist Dr.Donald Tomkins."His muscles are firmest,his resistance
to colds and infection is highest,and his body is most efficient in
utilizing nutrients."Women,for reasons scientists do not understand,get
a five-year bonus.Peak health begins to decline when the body process
{2A}S-z+G8` v0called anabolism (cell growth)is overtaken by the opposite process,catabolism
Wt$qDC'E4h/v#td0(cell death)."Cells have been dying since birth,"says Tomkins,"but in our
+|[4}HDP$m-L\0late 20's,they start dying faster than they are replaced."Also,muscle is replaced
C k&?4z`0with fat.
       Women also get an additional bonus of good health later in life.The
figures of National Institute of Health show that the onset of such"old age"
![$R8F@ Rf6{?0diseases as arthritis,rheumatism and hear ailments denies the generally
greater fitness of women:Life expectancy for men is now 68.3;for women
75.9.U.S.aging authority William Kannel says,"Older women with low
?/Ss"qluu@6p?0blood pressure are practically important."However,psychologists believe
-Co4zI6x8EWO6r0that by entering the competitive job market in increasing numbers,women
may eventually give up their statistical advantage.
7S%H;Kmf:`Do)^G:M0        WHEN ARE YOU MOST LIKELY TO DEVELOP MENTAL
p%JI!Lw b)t0DISORDERS?From 30 to 35.
        This surprisingly narrow peak is very real.The National Institute of
Mental Health(NIMH)reports that more than half of the patients in
mental hospital,male and female,are in this age group
!Y~(M+_v,j0(men leading women by about 20%).
        But if we are most neurotic between 30 and 35,apparently we recover quickly.Admissions to mental hospitals drop sharply around age 40 and stay
down until age 65.Yet,say psychologists,between 40 and 55,more people
4b'z7IA+vn_0report they "feel"on the verge of a nervous breakdown.Relatively few actually
occur."We become veterans at coping,"says psychologist Marvin Karlins.
        Suicide,a measure of mental problems,peaks from 20 to 24 and then
$O1?_:Q0Wf3|2H0again around 70.Incidences of suicide are smallest among people with
i.gYY7LJ/R~|0intact marriages,highest among the divorced.
Al3w`$Q T3x$B}0        WHEN ARE YOU HAPPINESS?You have the best physical sense of
yourself from 15 to 24;the best professtional sense from 40 to 49.Pessimism
$ev"w]1].{0peaks between 30 to 39.San Diego State University psychologists Marilyn
C!l${HH8Jk0Borges and Linda Dutton found that before age 24,we believe that they're
behind us.A National Health Survey agrees;After age 30,we"become more
realistic and do not view happiness as a goal in itself.If we maintain our
;u/ckK~0health,achieve professional and emotional goals,then
happiness,we feel,we follow."
        The American Institute of Public Opinion says that the pessimism
peak occurs when we realize that talent and determination aren't enough
m3sF ?0Snb*u0to guarantee success.Lady Luck must help.
        Also,youth's good physical sense of self apparently does little to
foster happiness,"Parents who tell their teenage children these are the
happiest years,"says Ligget,"coudn't be more wrong.Adolescence is very
.@4m/G#P(Q2C:N:r#C0difficult.Only when you are 40 and looking back does youth look blissful."
2?#{h xl!{0        WHEN ARE YOU MOST CREATIVE?Generally between 30 to 39,
x+H(yg9kq$x0but the peak varies with different professions.
        Mozart wrote a symphony and four sonatas by age eight,and
Mendelssohn composed his best known work,A Midsummer Night's Dream,
at 17.Psychologist H.C.Lehman presents the years for peak work in many
k%W@B:jiz0fields.Though the peak in most fields comes early--most Nobel Prize winners
did their top research in their late 20's and 30's--creative people continue to
.kaH!f-y[^0produce quality work throughout their lives.
       By viewing life's various peaks,we can easily get the feeling that we are
part of a giant give-and -take plan.Though statistically the plan is there,we
E,?1h5b4~!b~0must remember that every peak has many exceptions.Says McLeish,
-ES*u/@:YQ[:k,I`M0"The human life journey cannot be charted by a single curving line."

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