As a technology professional yourself, you understand how important it is to be challenged and to have opportunities to use your intellect, as well as your creative skills, to solve technology problems.
Your mission is to use your intellect to truly help another.
I know it must be terrible to grow old and infirm and to lose your intellect, but I want my mother to know she is valuable because she is loved, not because she is useful.
Memorization allows you to exercise your intellect fully you can't be a lawyer in a courtroom, and ask the judge to wait while you look up some particular point of the law code on your iPad.
It forces you to exercise your intellect.
The opera invites you to bypass your intellect and let the music reach some deeper, instinctual place inside yourself.
For those who would rather spend their leisure time confronting obstacles rather than trying to evade them, Jonathan Blow's The Witness, a game set on an oppressively picturesque island sprinkled with some 600 puzzles, provides the ideal forum in which to test your intellect.
This may only happen late at night, but at least you are continuing to feed your intellect with new knowledge, critical for creating sustainable growth.
