When you are a kid everything is astonishing, everything is new and so your brain is awake and turned on, you are constantly learning something new, learning how the world works, and so the muscle of your brain is activated. As you get older and your brain figures out the patterns of how the world works; this is how you make money, this is how you graduate from school, this is how you get a mortgage, this is how you have kids, this is how you go to work everyday, you know how to check out. The routine is the enemy of time. Routine makes time fly by. Once your brain establishes a routine the alertness goes away, the fascination with the way the world works goes away, your brain checks out
Getting out of your routine with new experiences and dynamic people wakes up your brain. Your brain becomes fascinated again
I want to be aware of everyday I’m alive. I want to make it to 100 and be exhausted because I have been alive and awake every single day. That’s the duty of being an adult. When you are a kid, everything is new, so you don’t have to work for it, you’re astonished by everything. Once you’re an adult, that’s a choice. You choose adventure for your own life. It’s about getting out of your routine. And that can look like anything. It turns your 100 years on this planet into 1000