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Wellness Wednesday for January 25, 2023

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

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I don't think it's really possible to significantly increase mental stamina, but you can learn to manage it better and adapt to a certain extent to specific tasks. This can also be a simple matter of motivation.

By the way, for me, exercise seems to draw from the same mental pool as mental tasks, so I have to train far from failure if i want to do anything productive after my workout.

Meditation. No social media throughout the day.

What exactly do you mean by mental stamina ?

Being able to perform mentally exhausting tasks continually, e.g. coding productively for an entire day ?

I never managed to more than 3-4 hours of studying under the worst time pressure. Maybe slightly more of that if I was doing some problems.

Nowadays

How many years has it been since the time you had that much endurance?

You could try some of the things suggested - fisetin in the appropriate dosage, for example.

This is what usually happens when people get older, but you could also just be a bit burnt out and need an extended break.

Don't take stimulants to try to keep up. Diet, sleep and exercise are the only sustainable things that work.

Erdos said it worked for him, but much more common is hearing people go nuts over it. Although, there's a selection effect there, so..

The solution really really really really is diet, exercise, and sleep; barring unchecked nutritional/hormone/immune/(any other health) issues.

And you won't see results in a day, sometimes it can take weeks to months.