Cal Newport

It's not something we fear.

It's something that we embrace.

All right, so high-end thinking training, non-instrumental courses being a major part of the information economy and cognitive endurance testing being ingrained in both education and our professional lives.

These are what I see in the future in the sort of the most intense tier of cognitive fitness that we might see with the revolution that's coming.

All right, so let's go back.

What am I trying to say here?

Don't sleep on cognitive fitness.

It's not something that, you know, cognitive fitness, having your brain fit, it's going to help you resist brain rot.

It's going to prevent technology companies from, you know, fully colonizing your mental life.

But it's more than that.

Cognitive fitness might very well be the key to healthy, thriving, and healthy, thriving, and dare I say, deep life in the 21st century.

I think it's an incredibly important trend that's just getting started.

You could be ahead of the curve.

Start taking cognitive,

fitness seriously now, start with the moderate tier, experiment with my more intense tier and be ready for the insane mode intensity that is going to follow.

The future is going to be won by those with strong brains, not those that are the most comfortable with tools or using the most AI or the most up on the latest phone apps.

It's going to be the people who can get the most out of what's between their ears.

I want you to be one of them.

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