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Do I Need a “Brain Gym”? | Monday Advice

aired Jun 15, 2026 · 58.0m
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Summary

Someone recently sent me one of those long-form idea articles that you post on X and hope that it does well. Now, at a high level, this new piece is responding to my own New York Times op-ed that came out in March, in which I argued that we need a cognitive fitness revolution to save our increasingly fried brains, much in the same way that in the 20th century, we needed a physical fitness revolution to save our incre

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It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, going, right, including: This one was titled, Your Brain is About to Need a Gym.

Key takeaways
  1. 01Corporate programs that audit and report your team's cognitive endurance the way they currently audit lines of code
  2. 02At each tier, I'm going to give you an ever more intense set of tools or ideas to think about for how to push your cognitive fitness to the next level
  3. 03It is very tempting because of AI tools to offload that strain you feel when you look at a blank page by just having that chatbot or just clicking on that Gemini button in Google D
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