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Mentally challenging jobs keep your brain sharper and help ward off dementia. It will help preserve cognitive abilities through retirement, regardless of one’s intelligence, age or education. Researchers at Duke University Medical Center looked at the IQ scores of 1,036 male twins when they joined the US army and compared them with the scores they got after retirement. Those who scored low in IQ tests in their youth and then took on mentally tough jobs, scored the best later. But those who were involved in physically demanding jobs like manual labour saw a decline in their intellectual capabilities during retirement.