Radical Personal Finance 928: How to Invest in Your Children at a Very Young Age, Part 12: Require Your Children to Memorize (and Teach Them How!)
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Apr 11, 2023 AI Snips
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Memory As Mental Exercise
- Shash Rashita argues memory is brain exercise that weakens if unused in a digital age.
- Strengthening memory early builds cognitive muscle useful across life.
Neighbor's Puzzle Habit And Dementia
- Rashita recalls a neighbor whose dementia stabilized after doing crosswords and jigsaw puzzles.
- That experience convinced him mental activity can extend functional brain years.
Memorized Poems As A Mental Larder
- Memorized poems act like a mental larder accessible in solitude.
- Knowing something by memory yields a deeper level of understanding.