Take for example: learning a language. While learning a new language is recommendable because it boosts your brainpower (memory, problem-solving), enhances career prospects in a globalized world, deepens cultural understanding and empathy, makes travel richer and easier, and even slows cognitive aging, offering significant personal and professional growth. But it’s all wasted effort when you’re not going to maintain that skill.
I’ve learned to treat my mind in a similar way as a curator treats his art collection. There is as much satisfaction in maintaining the collection in a good condition as there is in adding a new piece that sheds a new light upon it, causing a dimensional shift.
The Maharajagar 