This is counter intuitive for almost everyone, but the simple fact is that if you intentionally choose hardship, such as say going outside and learning a skill where you need to use your hands or play sports instead of eat cheetos and binge watch TV, you develop a different brain.
And of course a different body.
A brain that is inside a body that DOES things, functions at a much more efficient level. It doesn’t even matter if what you do is as seemingly pointless as play football, the reality is that moving your body, passing the ball, working with a team, affects you mentally, spiritually and physically in ways you can’t even begin to imagine. Choosing to read books instead of sitting on the couch and have stories fed to you by TV, forces you to use your imagination instead of merely being a receptacle for it.
IQ has declined about one standard deviation from the late 1800s, and part of it is the easy lifestyle we have now compared to then. Literally EVERYTHING was harder then, and because of it people had to use their brains more, and suffered far more dire consequences if they did not or did not succeed at it.
Today we have drooling morons questioning if the Earth is really a globe, and taking genetic serums that have always resulted in death in animal trials because the government tells them to.
So. Get out there. Read a book. Build something. Learn to hunt, track, butcher your own meat.
Plant a tree, plant some potatoes, climb a tree, fix something, learn to work wood, or strip and rebuild an engine.
Choosing the Hard Road
This is counter intuitive for almost everyone, but the simple fact is that if you intentionally choose hardship, such as say going outside and learning a skill where you need to use your hands or play sports instead of eat cheetos and binge watch TV, you develop a different brain.
And of course a different body.
A brain that is inside a body that DOES things, functions at a much more efficient level. It doesn’t even matter if what you do is as seemingly pointless as play football, the reality is that moving your body, passing the ball, working with a team, affects you mentally, spiritually and physically in ways you can’t even begin to imagine. Choosing to read books instead of sitting on the couch and have stories fed to you by TV, forces you to use your imagination instead of merely being a receptacle for it.
IQ has declined about one standard deviation from the late 1800s, and part of it is the easy lifestyle we have now compared to then. Literally EVERYTHING was harder then, and because of it people had to use their brains more, and suffered far more dire consequences if they did not or did not succeed at it.
Today we have drooling morons questioning if the Earth is really a globe, and taking genetic serums that have always resulted in death in animal trials because the government tells them to.
So. Get out there. Read a book. Build something. Learn to hunt, track, butcher your own meat.
Plant a tree, plant some potatoes, climb a tree, fix something, learn to work wood, or strip and rebuild an engine.
Do stuff.
Chose the hard road.
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