Brain Food: Maximum Flexibility

When people worry about your mental diet, they tend to fret about the junk you’re pouring into your brain—the trashy videos, the cheap horror movies, the degrading reality TV, and ... I’m not so worried about the dangers of mental junk food. That’s because I’ve found that many of the true intellectuals I’ve met take pleasure in mental junk food too... See more

The intellectual dimension entails satiating your intellectual thirst through the exploration and development of new concepts and skills. Lifelong Learning drives neural engagement, providing near- and longer-term benefits. The past months have seen an uptick in self-directed education, as millions have flocked to platforms ranging from MasterClass... See more

I didn't ‘immerse’ myself in the subject, except for intermittent periods. Complete immersion would have risked the sort of narrow-minded specialisation that this book ultimately seeks to challenge. Conscious of this, I allowed the knowledge from all other facets of my life over a five-year period to fuse, clash and connect with pre-existing materi

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