Cal Newport

At each tier, I'm going to give you an ever more intense set of tools or ideas to think about for how to push your cognitive fitness to the next level.

We'll end up on some prediction for some perhaps truly insane places that this revolution might end up.

in the near future.

So if you feel like the onslaught of the digital, from hyperpalatable distractions on your phone to the increasing urge to offload mental strain to AI, is making you dumber, and if you're fed up and you're ready to start pushing back, then this episode is for you.

As always, I'm Cal Newport, and this is Deep Questions, the show for people seeking depth in a distracted world.

All right, so let's start on our first tier of commitment to cognitive fitness.

We'll call this moderate intensity.

Now, last month on this show, I described a collection of five simple exercises for your brain that I say are the laying the foundation of sort of good cognitive fitness.

They're the...

The mental health equivalent of what we do in physical health where we say like get enough steps or eat some vegetables.

Easy things you can do on a regular basis that will really make a big difference over time and starting to get more fit.

This is our least intense tier of cognitive fitness intervention.

So I want to go through these five exercises again real quickly.

I actually have the...

the prop I used in that episode from a month ago.

So we can use that again.

And let's just briefly review the sort of moderate intensity commitment that I'm suggesting for cognitive fitness.

My first suggestion,

was to read every day.

Consuming the written word is like getting steps for your physical health.