Desert island discs

[HairOfTheDog]

My brain is going to stay healthy, so I can remember the photos, peoples and places that I've already seen in life. In the context of being stranded on a desert island, having a coffee table picture book, of any variety, therefore wouldn't mean much, to me.

I'll be busy focusing on what I'm seeing in my new and foreign environment (home); capturing it in my memory bank. I'm looking forward, not backward.

Those two paragraphs are totally at odds with each other, the first one says you want to keep your brain healthy to remember the past the next one says you are concentrating on looking forward not backward. So which is it?

Will reading a dictionary exercise your brain and keep it healthy? debatable. It might broaden your vocabulary which is pointless because you've got no one to talk to anyway.

I never heard an inventor or thinker saying the secret to their success was regularly reading a dictionary! I wonder why? Probably because sitting reading a dictionary is retarded.

You don't make any sense, CN.

Here we go, one more time. Just for you.

Memorization and learning - helps the brain stay active and healthy. Indisputable. I didn't choose the dictionary, but if I had, I wouldn't be "reading" it like a novel. I'd be using it to stimulate my brain with those types of activities, like you'd use the pictures in your book to stimulate your soul.

"Looking forward" doesn't mean erasing all memory or feelings from the past. As my brain and memory remains strong, so does retention of things past. Looking forward means anticipating or focusing on what's ahead. I can focus on the present and the future while remembering the past, without stagnating or moving backwards. I do it every day - the geography is irrelevant.

I don't really put much stock in other people's "secret to my success..." claims, even here where there's lots of room to focus on success over solo survival. I really don't know or care what, if any, role the dictionary has played in success stories.