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My concern here is i think we substitute (brain) exercise with mundane (brain) sugars like Social Media, Youtube, infinite scrolls, etc. Removing those is good, but you have to put something back in their place, lest you lose the muscle entirely.

Cognitive use is linked (i believe?) to holding off various aging diseases, so ensuring you're using what you don't want to lose seems to be the most important thing. Exercise for all things.

How do you approach brain exercise?




I do not consider Youtube bad because I never look at it. It is my source of listening long videos, like 7 hours of programming lesson of my favorite programming teacher, you know that it contains some really sophisticated talks.

What about living with no smartphone, I do not need to put anything instead of it because I have recognized the malice of this technology really early, because when I see a human with smartphone, the most similar situation I can name is the relations between a human and a dog, and this never cease to amuze me that the dog in this relation is the smartphonee, not the smartphone. Android 2 was beautiful and never tried to enslave me, Android 4 was beautiful technically but its UX started to rot in the meaning of something not exactly for its users.

"Use it or lose it" is a motto of my brain exercises, my focus is not to lose learning abilities. Innocent things like brushing your teeth with not a regular arm but with another (left for most of people) gives surprising results in the long run but the best brain exercise by far is trying to teach someone at something complicated (Math, Programming, Martial arts, Music).


> It is my source of listening long videos, like 7 hours of programming lesson of my favorite programming teacher, you know that it contains some really sophisticated talks.

Yea, i was mostly saying that because it actively promotes such vapid content with ease. It's attention-seeking-algorithms to the max, like social media in general.

Just because it _can_ be good, doesn't mean it is by default imo. Social media in general can also be good, but i wouldn't say it is in general.


You will lose your congnitive abilities either way, due to old age. Do you have higher purpose behind trying to retain them for as long as possible?


Of course I will lose it - literally every day at least few neurons die irreversably.

My higher purpose is having fun, but I associate the fun quantity of myself with ability to process Math information. Mathematics is the coolest thing among anything I know.


The best brain exercise I have found is trying to learn another language with anki.

As an old man, it is so hard it feels like a form of brain powerlifting.

I really wish I had anki when I was younger. 30 minutes a day of cards on a tough subject and 30 minutes a day of cardio is probably something everyone should do for life.




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