In our technologically oriented environment, you must keep exercising your brain!

“To go along with this self-control, we must do whatever we can to cultivate a greater memory capacity – one of the most important skills in our technologically oriented environment. The problem that technology presents us is that it increases the amount of information at our disposal, but slowly degrades the power of our memory to retain it. Tasks that used to exercise the brain – remembering phone numbers, doing simply calculations, navigating and remembering streets in a city – are now performed for us, and like any muscle the brain can slowly grow flabby from disuse. To counteract this, in our spare time we should not simply look for entertainment and distractions. We should take up hobbies – a game, a musical instrument, a foreign language – that bring pleasure but also offer us the chance to strengthen our memory capacities and the flexibility of our brain. In doing so, we can train ourselves to process large amounts of information without feeling anxious or overtaxed.” – Robert Greene (Mastery)