Practise absurdism, it's logically super!

Embrace absurdism to boost brainpower, surpassing conventional methods like Sudoku or mindfulness. This practice involves accepting life's meaninglessness and engaging in nonsensical acts, fostering mental agility without expecting tangible result...

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Forget Sudoku. Toss out your mindfulness app. If you really want to keep your brain tip-top, go on an absurdist regimen. Practising absurdism every day is like feeding your neurons a diet of kale, espresso and synapse juice. But what is it, you ask? Absurdism, dear reader, is the art of embracing life's lack of inherent meaning and engaging in acts and utterings of total non-sense. Such as asking your bank manager, 'I have to immediately transfer ₹2.3 lakh to pigeons I owe money.' Or, pushing a toaster up and down the kitchen counter and then writing a short report on it. That it amounts to nothing only adds to absurdism's power.

This isn't pointlessness. It's mental agility without outcomes. Think of it like being on an exercise bike in the gym where the cycle doesn't move. Absurdism forces your mind to stretch beyond logic, pirouette around reason, and land gracefully in the puddle of nonsense that is the world. Call it cognitive jazz, or cerebral punk. It's confusing, confounding and occasionally performed by people wearing lungis as pagdis. Once an absurdist, always one. As you keep your brain limber, your imagination limber-er, and your sanity just slightly out of reach of people chained to logic, it will make you negotiate better with the world, react sharper with its denizens, and enjoy life in all its circular serrations.

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