Your brain has to be trained just like the rest of your body, unless you want to start experiencing cognitive decline by age 30.
Your brain has to be trained just like the rest of your body, unless you want to start experiencing cognitive decline by age 30.
What do you train in brain day?
4x8 dick sucks
Read and meditate
I play go at a fairly competitive level. Greatest game on earth. I'm an engineer by trade, though.
This dude playing pokemon as an adult lmao
Technically pokemon is the only game there is.
So far I've caught mercedesbenzcar-mon and hotbitch-mon and I'm about to catch bighouseon10acresofland-mon, then I've gonna train my hotbitch-mon and evolve her to childrenandafamily-mon.
Still saving my masterball.
lel you are playing digimon
your sick comment is ruined
I've been playing far too long for that to get under my skin anymore lol. Not Pokemon go, not CS:Go, not Golang, not the general verb, not the British slang for "attempt, but the board game. Baduk. Weiqi. Igo.
I also play chess, but not very well. I find go to be a more interesting game.
I like Chess more than Go because it's a solved game with 2 dimensional vector space which has awesome implications.
DeepMind solved Go like 3-5 years ago.
"solved" doesn't mean, "mastered the game to the level you can beat anyone".
"Solved" means you have mapped every single possible pre-mutation of the game such that it is physically impossible for you to lose, regardless of who you are playing. For instance, if Go is solved, then you could beat God himself, playing his best at the game, if you went first.
Oh okay
What made you pick go and not somehting like chess?
Go is for homosexuals, play chess like a real chad
Yeah it's like that sometimes. Ignoring their Western communities, go is the superior game in a vacuum, but man there are so many gays that play go. Some of these attention prostitutes trannies have just shit up OGS in the last few years.
Chess has the more phallic pieces, therefore is the more gay of the two
Pudding head
Chesschad here. Either can be based. Go is so complicated and has so many possibilities that AI has only started beating humans at Go within the last few years, whereas AI beat humans at chess in the 90s.
Honestly just play whatever is more fun, unless you dedicate your entire life to one of those games, it's not like you'll ever find one to be "too easy"
>unless you dedicate your entire life to one
And you started at age 5.
Much like lifting, success is found in consistency and not worrying about being good or bad, but just DOING IT. Also you will accelerate by doing it with somebody better than you. It's very hard to learn go with self study. The strategy is extremely opaque.
I've been filtered by go so fricking hard 🙁
Active recall, meditation, and mental calculation. You're basically directing your focus to the past, present and then future, like the outcomes of different options in a game of chess or a problem you're working with. If you don't like to meditate just do something with intense focus and no wandering thoughts.
Doing anything that is fast-paced and requires you to process a lot of information and react accordingly is good too, like playing a sport or (some) games. And cultivate your inner speech.
Literally and without exaggeration this. I'm also learning new languages with DS games.
>plays a game that openly calls him an incel
Top jej
Math, spreadsheets, factorio, programming. Anything that makes me rustle my jimmies.
>programming
I really wish games like Human Resource Machine would come prepackaged with an encyclopedia with the concepts you explore and are forced to apply, just like Civilization and Assassin's Creed for history. Those games made learning fun
you gotta train to failure (have a stroke) to make actual gains. just like cardio days
Clean and jerks or snatches
Math until you feel sleepy, then sleep. The sleeping part is important. Take a nap when you need it, especially if the need for it is brought on by doing cognitively demanding tasks.
reading marx
That does involve a lot of mental gymnastics yes
i've been playing Talos Principle, some of the puzzles take me a solid hour to solve
i feel like puzzles are a good way to work the brain
read books and study math
play musical instruments
Americans are absically half-dead in their late 20s, huh?
>cognitive decline by age 30.
Lmao.
I'm 42 and I feel dumber and slower now, the last 3 years or so I noticed it. I am crap at Dawn of War 2 nowadays - its too fast.
You're right, it's pretty dumb of you to equate 42 with 30.
you literally train the frick out of your brain just by being alive and doing any kind of activity like work or pursuing hobbies
it's not a muscle, you halfwit
No, brains get soft easily. And it's a metaphor you literal, actual dimwit.
so it's a metaphor, but it's also meant to be taken literally?
>work and hobbies
>this Black person brain is sore from stocking shelves and playing video games
damn Black person
This is the truth. You just use your brain automatically. Maybe you waste your time on gossip or some shit but it's still using your brain to the same extent as if you were doing a math problem. That's what I believe. I could be wrong, maybe you could make small mental gains by training the brain, but they would still be small gains. Only if you had severe stimulus deprivation like solitary confinement would there be any major negative impact happen to your brain. What is a big part of the reason westerners can't have monkeys as pets? Because they are interested in doing shit all the time, it's just how the primate brain is wired. I personally do not believe it matters whether you are watching tv or reading an encyclopedia - though the latter may be more useful to you it won't affect your brain functioning physically. Now if you're depressed it could also be bad, but if you're really invested in eg. a tv show I see no reason why it would make any difference.
If we're talking physiology, that's a lot more credible to me. Eating well, being fit and so on, there's really good evidence for that sort of thing helping your brain.
That's right never skip math day bros
45 minutes of reading each and every day.
>I prefer not to work on intellectually challenging task so that I'll end up cognitive decline by age 50
I just know you're some dumb weed smoking homosexual with 0.9 GPA
Enjoy being senile by age 55
white people be like
>muh brain
Both work out at Chernobil
My job pretty much requires me to do the mental equivalent of amrap. The downside is that by the time I get home whenever I try to think or to retain information it's as if my brain hits itself on the back of my forehead
I can’t do curls with my brain, dumbass
I already ruined my brain with massive amounts of drugs starting at 6 years old it's uniroically over for me
>drugs starting at 6 years old
For what is worth, my paternal grandmother was a twin. Her twin sister played the guitar and my grandmother played no instrument. My grandmother was noticeably more senile than my great-aunt at 70 onward, but my very senile grandmother outlived my slightly senile Aunt by a year.
>played the guitar
this makes sense given playing an instrument in a creative manner (i.e. improvising) requires ~70% of your brain
I’ve picked up drum lessons again and am learning jazz comping and sight reading. I can literally feel the neural connections being strained when doing something new so I’m guessing that’s like brain DOMS.
Then you can just do it effortlessly a week later or whatever. Also I just got back In school so college algebra also feels like a good brain exercise.
I meditated for a while and made it a point of making focusing something I always fall into.
Right now I just focus on nothing most of the time
feels good