Cal Newport

High school graduates wrote essays to get into college, had the test scores, are looking at a 20-page article and say, I can't read that.

That is the cognitive equivalent of having type 2 diabetes.

Your brain is not working.

It is not anywhere near where it needs to be to be a functioning, thriving member of our sort of civic democracy and a knowledge work economy.

This is a big deal.

It's the type of thing that makes us say cognitive fitness matters.

And it goes back to that cognitive endurance testing.

That's what I want if I'm a college, maybe.

I want to see where you are.

Take one of these tests in a testing center.

I don't care about your AI-generated college essay.

Take one of these tests.

How much can you focus?

That's what I'm looking for.

Do that one change.

Let me tell you what you could do right now.

I'm thinking about this on the fly.

You want to change the trajectory of this country.

You want to give new opportunities and the ability for our current young generation to have the best chance of thriving in their lives.

Add alongside mandatory SAT testing for college admissions, add cognitive endurance testing.