Exercising

Memory exercise

Learning to listen and to observe is really at that time a priority and already is giving a lot of results - but it's a demanding business and not being able to do anything automatically is sometime slowing down processes.

To be awake in the sense of knowing at any given moment, what I am doing, and why, what time is it, how long have I been doing this, what is around me, where I left things around in the house, how many tasks are still pending for today ... is something that is already giving a lot of benefits.

Deficient observation is merely a form of ignorance and responsible for the many morbid
notions and foolish ideas prevailing. There is not more than one out of every ten
persons who does not believe in telepathy and other psychic manifestations,
spiritualism and communion with the dead, and who would refuse to listen to
willing or unwilling deceivers?
— Nikola Tesla

Strengthening the will

A second task is to strengthen the will, in a first attempt I'm going slowly just by avoiding sugar and reducing bad habits (like checking facebook or reddit for no reason, but instant gratifications) - this is tough, but has another set of benefits (health).

The Brain is a muscle

Like a muscle it need exercises and will thrive later on.
I've got the feeling that I've let things going down the slopes for a while, and will need to return to a more agile mind.

Universe Grows Like A Brain | Social Networks | LiveScience: Past studies showed brain circuits and the Internet look a lot alike. But despite finding this functional similarity, nobody had developed equations to perfectly predict how computer networks, brain circuits or social networks grow over time, Krioukov said.

Using Einstein's equations of relativity, which explain how matter warps the fabric of space-time, physicists can retrace the universe's explosive birth in the Big Bang roughly 14 billion years ago and how it has expanded outward in the eons since.