Have you ever gotten tired from thinking?

Just like lifting weights — you can do some heavy lifting with your BRAIN

 

Your body is prepared to lift heavy weights and your brain is prepared to lift heavy weights.

Besides the silly vanity of building muscle — retaining strength is retaining bodily function is retaining health

The same goes for your BRAIN

You want to keep your muscles, all your muscles, in shape and functional, and grow them still

 

The similarity is not entirely obvious however

You can waste your brain-power on stupid games

You can waste your brain-space on useless knowledge

There are many ways of using brain without really using it

Many ways of being stupid while pretending to be intelligent

 

I’m just trying to warn you about reading million useless books, or not reading books at all

I’m trying to warn your about stupid games

I’m trying to warn you about philosophizing without any touch with reality

 

The obvious solution would be to “challenge oneself in life”,

I agree with that,

Like muscles have real-world purpose — so does your brain. What better test than the very thing it was designed for?

 

However this “workout” allegory does beg the question if brain-training could be isolated — just like one isolates building muscle in the gym

HAVE YOU EVER GOTTEN TIRED FROM THINKING?

I get tired from thinking quite often

I’d rather my thoughts were useful — but if not — perhaps my tired brain counts for something

The weights i moved in the gym didn’t benefit nobody either — they just fatigued my own muscles

Perhaps it would make sense to fatigue the BRAIN sometimes

 

Again, best USE that brain against the REAL WORLD

But perhaps you can think of some situations in your life in which THINKING and SOLVING PROBLEMS gave you a headache

Consider it a GOOD thing

Consider it you WORKING OUT YOUR BRAIN

Consider it healthy for your neurons

 

And find more such things

Hopefully useful — but if not — then at least you’re “working out your brain”

The point is to use mental fatigue as an indicator

The first reason to DO something should always be DOING SOMETHING USEFUL, CREATIVE, BEAUTIFUL, in REAL LIFE,

But if you’re going to go read another book — then at least choose one which makes your head hurt

Don’t pretend that you’re becoming a better person (not if you’re just reading and not using it) — but if it makes your head spin — then at least you can call it a “mental workout”

Not the most flattering thing to say about reading philosophy or learning a new language — but it’s still better then what most men call “studying” or “thinking”

Do workout your brain. It can’t be a bad idea. Be smarter

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