When I was in the corporate world, I was constantly consuming information. Emails to triage, financial projections to build and socialize, and technical content to absorb and translate. It was a nonstop buffet for the brain.
Then I retired. Suddenly my days were filled with travel, helping my parents relocate, and tackling long delayed house projects. After a few weeks, I realized something surprising: I missed the constant ingestion of content. My mind felt like it had taken an extended vacation. My brain was getting hungry.
Dr. Thomas Holland, a clinician/researcher in cognitive aging, once said that “if your brain were a city, gray matter would be the buildings and neural networks—the highways connecting them.” Based on that metaphor, my gray matter was definitely due for more traffic.
So I sat down and listed the topics that genuinely interest me right now – AI, finance, philosophical works, and music. Then I kicked off my quest for brain food by picking up a book on cryptocurrencies.
I also reworked my daily routine to carve out a dedicated “brain feeding” segment. Look out, gray matter.
What topics are you diving into these days? Your brain is hungry – feed it.
Steven