Physical challenges don’t do it for me anymore

Whilst I like to be active and keep fit, I don’t like physical challenges are much as I used to. I still go hiking which can be difficult, but I don’t do that for the challenge aspect although I do appreciate it once it’s over. It’s nice to feel like you’ve done something.

I do want to play a sport again, but this too is not for the challenge, it’s to meet people.

Maybe it’s because I’m older, but physical challenges don’t fill me with anything other than a way to stay fit or think about stuff in my life. I am starting to prefer mental challenges. Life itself is one big mental challenge so it’s not hard to get started.

A lot of people avoid the mental challenges of life but I choose to do the opposite, and it makes your life much harder. You have to face a lot of the things that people usually hide from. Ironically mental challenges can make you get more physical as well, they both go hand it hand.

I’ve heard people like Joe Rogan say that he likes physical challenges because they mimic life struggles, like if you were poor or something. This is of course a very out-of-touch comment. Lifting heaving weights is its own type of challenge, not one that’s similar to any of life's real struggles. Anyone who’s actually struggled would know that.

I need to think probably too much, I even use the physical activities I do to do that. Lifting weights just to get big seems pointless other than to land a shallow woman, and running a marathon, or taking on an Iron Man seems like something you’d only do for your ego — sorry I mean charity. People run marathons and take on physical challenges for charity and no other reason.

I’ve tried a few different intellectual challenges but I find them hard as I’m not doing them for a purpose. The difficulty doesn’t bother me, that’s the point, but when you’re doing anything difficult you have to ask yourself “whats the ROI?”. You’re investing lots of time and effort into something so there should be a reason for doing it, even if that reason is only that you find it fun.

I’m not going to do maths every day just so it can keep my mind sharp. I did this for a while and naturally, the more complicated it got the longer it took to solve each problem. This took up lots of…