[iamflimflam1]

The cognitive decline is definitely something that worries me. It's been fascinating to observe changes in myself. The days when I would just brute force my to power through problems have definitely decreased in favour of using experience and shortcuts.

I now make a conscious effort to check every so often that I'm not always using fast thinking and do actually apply real focus to questions.

Definitely having younger people around really helps. And there will come a point where I simply just don't want to learn something new - this won't be from laziness - it will just be that it's very difficult.

[Forestessential]

take the right supplements, avoid stress. Learning to flow through stress in life and not have to muscle through absorption is important. Diet really does matter. Caffine shrinks your brain too btw. I think all coffee drinkers and especially energy drinkers eventually need to put that crap down so they can think straight 100%%