W.I.N. Wednesday: Am I allowing that part of my brain to atrophy?

As you know I commonly share quotes and attempt to provide some sense of deeper or broader explanation or application. The following is an excerpt from Tim Ferriss’ 5 Bullet Friday newsletter February 18, 2022. The quote struck me as a cautionary note for me and I wanted to share it without further explanation or commentary. 

Quote I’m pondering —
“My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why this should have caused the atrophy of that part of the brain alone, on which the higher tastes depend, I cannot conceive. A man with a mind more highly organised or better constituted than mine, would not, I suppose, have thus suffered; and if I had to live my life again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week; for perhaps the parts of my brain now atrophied would thus have been kept active through use. The loss of these tastes is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more probably to the moral character, by enfeebling the emotional part of our nature.”
— Charles Darwin on his fading ability to find music, poetry, and art as emotionally evocative in his old age (Source: The Autobiography of Charles Darwin) 

Take care.

Brian Willis

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