A Few Words From My Brain, About My Brain, Before It Turns To Mush: Notes On TPT's Brain Special

I just took a brain health quiz.  If I am to have any hope at all of not immediately tipping into senility, I think I need to spend the rest of my life on a treadmill, reading Ullysses., while eating fish.   

The following things are evidently not good for my brain:  watching more than an hour's worth of television a day, spending more than a hour of non-work time on the computer, having more than two cups of coffee a day, getting less than six hours of sleep a day, missing exercise, falling off my diet, experiencing chronic stress,  ever feeling negative, worried, or angry.

I’m negative, worried, and angry right now.   

I would like to use the three brain cells which I can still spare for irony to point out that the show, "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life,” which the local PBS featured on its fund-raising drive, was one and a half hours long. 

And of course I know what Dr Amen (really) means.  There’s TV—the Colbert Report, the Office, 30 Rock, Chelsea Lately, my boys on PTI–and then there’s the depressing mediocrity that washes over you because you can’t bother to get off the couch.  There’s that link you follow that pushes the limits of human inanity. There is the physical and spiritual dehydration that makes life punchy and joyless. My life is an ongoing note to work on these things. 

Now what was I saying? How did I get here? Look, a doggy.   

*A little poking on the web revealed that the show, while broadcast by PBS affiliates, for PBS fund-raising, and featuring PBS on-air personalities, wasn't actually a PBS show, but a sort of infomercial for the turtleneck and blazer crowd and that the science behind the show's more controversial claims has been attacked by Dr Amen's peers. No wonder I'm not supposed to spend too much time on the web.

Comments

[Carolyn]

Oh, funny. If you live on the treadmill eating fish reading Ulysses, you'll want your brain to be mush. And let me say, that link is so insane and perfect.

[K]

My favorite part about the "inane" link is that it isn't just a web site. It's a FORUM . . . a place for DISCUSSION.