Cal Newport

So that's like a non-trivial amount of cognitive fitness work.

So you would have to actually put aside some time and have some intention to actually get there.

Now, I don't have like a final definitive point system to recommend yet, right?

And I think that's something I might actually work on for an upcoming episode.

But for now, you might consider doing something like this on your own.

Writing out a system, a point system for various cognitive fitness activities and setting a 30-point-a-week goal, keeping track of it.

And this will push you to do more stuff with your brain than you otherwise might have.

All right, so that's our second tier.

That's sort of like serious intensity of cognitive fitness activity.

As we continue this thought of experiment of taking seriously what will happen if cognitive fitness becomes $100 billion industry, let's go to our third tier, which I'm going to call insane mode intensity.

And what I want to do here is look to the future.

So the first two tiers are things you can do.

varying intensity of things you can do right now.

But if cognitive fitness really becomes a massive industry like physical fitness, there's going to be an industry built around cognitive fitness.

And so I want to put out three predictions about what we might see in the near future if and when cognitive fitness becomes an actual major industry.

All right, so the first prediction is that we're going to see high-end fitness.

thinking trainers.

I've spent most of my life as a professional thinker, and if you're a professional thinker, there's lots of places you get informal but pretty comprehensive training, like when I was at MIT.

You're basically taught, maybe through osmosis as an example, how to think, how to do math, how to sustain concentration on complicated problems.

But I think there might be great benefit to bringing this sort of professional thinking training to people in all sorts of different walks of life, not just people that prove theorems for a living.