Cal Newport

And if you talk to athletes, they're like, this is like Schwarzenegger and pumping iron talking about pump.

And that's a really painful what he's doing actually.

Right.

Like lifting the, the, the level of weights that the physical pain he's in is high and he compares it to an orgasm.

Right.

Because if you're a weightlifter, you're like, Oh, that pain is,

is directly translating the more strength and more muscle mass.

You got to think that same way about your brain.

You cannot flee cognitive strain.

You have to think about it in a knowledge work cognitive age.

That is the feeling of my brain getting more capable.

Yeah, I want to seek that out.

Let's go get it.

Let's go get some, right?

Like I want to, this, nope, bring my focus back to this thing.

I'm going to try to push this through.

And then when you're done, be like, oh man, I exhausted my brain.

That's awesome.

That was like a really good cognitive workout.

So while everyone else is using AI to run away from strain, you should be the person running for it.