by Pupp » Tue Jul 14, 2020 5:02 pm
Any hobby that forces you to think is a good thing. Like a lot of education, it's often hard to quantize the individual bits of knowledge one picks up. Yet most people can talk to a highly educated person and know, without asking, that they are highly educated. Although that doesn't mean the person went to college, it usually does.
With intellectual pursuits, it's real payoff is over time. People that constantly push the limits of their brain are much less likely to succumb to dementia when they get older. Even Alzheimer's disease due to genetic disposition can be delayed or the effects lessened dramatically.