Cal Newport

Oh, look, all you got to do is run 15 miles under an hour 25 and you get 120 points.

It wasn't just walking, running, like here's cycling.

I don't know cycling well, but look, if you do a two-mile ride in seven minutes, you get 1.5 points and so on, right?

So we had all these different...

He had all these different mappings of activities to points.

And maybe you like cycling.

Maybe you like running.

Maybe you like walking.

Maybe you like doing high-intensity weight training.

You would add up your points and try to get to 30 in a week.

And it would take a non-trivial.

You really had to be putting aside time and training in order to hit the 30 points.

So that was a good way of conveying it takes a lot of exercise to get as much as you need.

I think we could use, here's my idea, we could use an equivalent point system for cognitive fitness.

That we could have a collection of assignments of points to different types of cognitive fitness activities and then following Cooper's model, say your goal is to get 30 points a week.

as a way to get you past just doing some basic activities and actually doing a lot of the stuff you need.

Now, I came up with a sample point system.

I'll read a few of these ideas off here.

Maybe you get one point for 20 pages of easy reading, two for 20 pages of moderately complex, and three for 20 pages, just say pages, not minutes, of hard reading.

Maybe two points for a 30-minute thinking walk, two points for 15 minutes of deliberate practice, five points for 20 minutes of writing.