Are you retired and looking for a hobby to do, worried about your mind melting? It can happen you know. Have you ever noticed that once someone retires their ability to reason or keep up a rapid fire intellectual conversation drops of significantly? They say if you dont use it, you lose it and we know a brain is a terrible thing to waste. Without an intellectual pursuit and a hobby, which requires thought, reason and problem solving one can enter that downhill slide of brain rot. You can pick a hobby, which requires the uses of many parts of your brain and thus help your brain stay alert and healthy. How so you ask?

Well, consider something like sailing, where you have to understand all aspects of the boat and will have to learn how everything works. Then you will have to figure out our to use your senses to feel the wind? Then you will have to lean about the rules of boating, maintenance and technique? This means your new hobby will cause you to read manuals and books. Attain licenses and learn a new skill and thus your brain will be fully engaged. But Sailing is just one hobby, which challenges your mind, there are many such hobbies. You need to find one, which suits you and one, which will challenge you to think. If not join a think tank or something. Think on this.

Lance Winslow

Currently Lance is retired at age 40 and is running an Online Think Tank Forum while traveling North America. Perhaps considering something extremely challenging to do that will exercise his mind and utilize all his experiences, observations and skills. Any ideas?