Cognitive Fitness
Description: Anil Rajput: Author of Cognitive Fitness; Founder of Neural Stone & Soft Stream; IIT Bombay & Goldman Sachs Alumni
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The absence of disease and disability means good health but for us, fitness is usually achieved with a healthy diet and physical exercise, and a fit body can prevent many miserable medical conditions later in life. Chronic stress or suffering can also slowly and silently harm our health, however coming out from an abyss of misery, managing usual stress, or using the cognitive faculties to their best and flourish, needs much more than a balanced meal or a full body workout.
Health is the greatest gift of life but it may not seem that way until biological functions are on the line—just like rest of the good—and a fit body and mind can help us to chase our desires or sources of joy, but there is much more to this than meets the eye.
In general, emotions provide feedback and guide our behavior but what feels good can be bad and what feels bad can be good, and even if the pain may indicate the presence of a problem, too much misery can paradoxically diminish, not enhance, our ability to solve a complex problem—substance abuse, eating junk food, or a sedentary lifestyle may feel good but experienced happiness does not last as the harm caused sticks and continues to compound; pushing through physical or cognitive boundaries may be unpleasa
Cognitive Fitness