I am a fairly energetic person. Yes, things have been slowing down as I age but my spirit is young.
I switched careers several times. About 2 years into my dev role I realized that I do have a relatively fixed amount of cognitive stamina. Took me a while to actually get it.
1. Partying all night has an extremely bad effect due to several factors I better not mention directly
2. Competitive gaming is sucking the life out of me. I have taught myself to avoid playing seriously anything Quake or StarCraft as these high skill 1vs1 games naturally attract other wannabes just like my younger self. It's all very demanding and I always end up either taking a beating or 10, or sacrificing the next few work days.
I have learned to take the ego hits and suffer horrible humiliations in the games that I love.
In any case, what never fails to charge and heal me is going to nature. Does wonders to body and mind
I am pretty sure people still play Pong, Arkanoid and Doom for that matter. Here, go play Spacewar! - https://archive.org/details/pdp1_spacewar (read instructions below, it is not obvious though, like press LCtrl+Enter to load)
I switched careers several times. About 2 years into my dev role I realized that I do have a relatively fixed amount of cognitive stamina. Took me a while to actually get it.
1. Partying all night has an extremely bad effect due to several factors I better not mention directly
2. Competitive gaming is sucking the life out of me. I have taught myself to avoid playing seriously anything Quake or StarCraft as these high skill 1vs1 games naturally attract other wannabes just like my younger self. It's all very demanding and I always end up either taking a beating or 10, or sacrificing the next few work days.
I have learned to take the ego hits and suffer horrible humiliations in the games that I love.
In any case, what never fails to charge and heal me is going to nature. Does wonders to body and mind