- Adam Plant
COGNITIVE DECLINE

Personality Types
Uncomfortable silence isn’t silently strong. Loud and Talkative doesn’t scream intelligent confidence. Traumatic experiences don’t indicate experienced wisdom. Disattached isolation isn’t self-sufficient. Self-sacrifice isn’t classed as generosity. Obsessive tendencies aren’t directed focus. Restlessness isn’t motivation. Controlling attachment isn’t unmitigated love. Diary-free cheese isn’t real cheese.
Self-Cultivation
No need to search for outside approbations when you’ve found a personal reality which compliments you every day. Begin slow and build your farm with eggs, ready to hatch strong chickens which will eventually become a hardy meal; providing sustenance for you and your ego. However, you must always beware of wolves on the prowl who may compromise tomorrow’s potential poultry. When you spot them sneaking, you must stop thinking (just shoot).
Addiction
Whether you’re sad, mad or just totally rad (dawg); safe drug addiction may be the cure for you! Reap the staggering benefits of substance abuse and fall into an untapped mindset of easygoing attitudes towards motivation, hard work and comfortable socialising. Ascertain your very own technique of meeting and greeting those who you have absolutely no interest in communicating with. Obviously, this alternative outlook on existence needs constant effort to maintain, especially if you’re planning on long term sustainment and (even more obviously) you need to be able to dictate yourself through a healthy level of routine as sickening withdrawals are a step in the wrong direction.
Social Anxiety
You’re probably sitting there waiting for somebody to initiate a conversation because you’re too caught up in your own bad emotion and emotional debris to turn and spit even a single drop of conversational lubricant. Take a long hard gaze to your left and identify the group of socialite’s complete disregard for the trauma of tomorrow’s regret... Seems easily achievable but once the words begin to rain from your cheeks, your mind is drained of any content; leaving your vocal cords choked and flooded with anxiety. Sure, maybe it’s time to accept personal limitations and swim away into the lonely lake of self-doubt and isolation; or perhaps it’s time to build a ship of fraudulent confidence and sail the high seas of assertive attraction. It’s never too late to become a pirate of personality.
Prioritising
Don’t look at life as if it’s an ongoing challenge, which is to say that you should challenge the definition of “challenges” if you feel they define your life. All the greatest things in history took time and you’re not going the erect your own personal city of Rome within the hour, especially if you’re fuelling your mental muscle by eating the empty eggs of negativity. Instead, trying by feasting on the mother hen of energy and openness.
Despair
Maintaining an existence in which your body and mind can thrive is trial and error. The key is to not succumb to the ashes of defeat when faced with hopeless adversity but, to instead, try another routine for success. Maybe your fire isn’t burning as once anticipated or perhaps your addiction for comparison is burning too bright. Remember that your journey is your journey and only your journey. No one else should be blamed for your cold failure or reap the warm rewards of your illuminated achievement.
Creativity
Art is a very open and broad concept which is then contained in a very tight box which is then further restricted inside an even smaller capsule which is then justified by several pages of conceptual statements before being mounted on a small podium. Many artists will argue that the sentiment of creative thinking relates to a sense of creative freedom which exists without rules or guidelines but few gallery venues will exhibit an artwork if it doesn’t meet the expectations of needless professional standards. Furthermore, any artwork which hasn’t got any commercial viability or pre-established notoriety will be rejected by the overseeing art authorities until it’s proven to be popular on the merit of banknotes and prestigious checks. Further-furthermore, is art really art if the artist doesn’t tell you it’s an artwork in the first place? If the essence of art is truly free then surely a VHS snuff video depicting a homeless man being beaten by unsupervised teenaged degenerates would comparably be the conceptual Mona Lisa of today’s depraved anarchist art movement.
Despair
Maintaining an existence in which your body and mind can thrive is trial and error. The key is to not succumb to the ashes of defeat when faced with hopeless adversity but, to instead, try another routine for success. Maybe your fire isn’t burning as once anticipated or perhaps your addiction for comparison is burning too bright. Remember that your journey is your journey and only your journey. No one else should be blamed for your cold failure or reap the warm rewards of your illuminated achievement.
Insomnia
Remember: It’s not insomnia if you choose to be awake. Additionally, it’s important that you those extra sleepless hours in a constructive manner while being fuelled by a concoction of caffeine and sugar. When energy levels eventually begin to fall, stubbornly re-energise your body by asking yourself “will sleep defeat me or will I defeat sleep?”
Metal Fatigue
It's kind of like, um, sort of a thing where (ahh) there's a weird kinda way you sorta can't get, um, into a headspace where you (ehh) really, um_ahh, no sorry. It's more like when you have a head full of thoughts but um, you just keep, hmmm, sorta keep repeating the same, um, sorta thing and then there are these weird kinda times when (mmmm). Actually I find it's a bit distracting when you're trying to communicate but your uh... (what the word?) vocabulary is just not really sorta kinda not being able to finish the first set of thoughts but maybe_it's a kind-of-sort-of mentally draining and the (uhhhhhhhhhh) ............................................ I'm not explaining this very good right now and I'm trying to think of this word that's on the tip of my tongue which would definitely help me out but I just can't get to where I'm like um fuck. Okay... um........................... that thing................ um.................... okay, one second......................................... I don’t know, ask me later.
Anger
I’m sad and can’t think about anything else but my own sadness. I’m also spiteful when people are successful in happiness. Fuck everything and everyone.
Hormonal Instability
Like a golf club or a pendulum, your mood can swing. Everything you spent your life becoming can shatter like talc-filled soapstone when you’re prone and overthrown by the unknown uncertainties of full-blown hormone destabilisation. Science-people (known as “scientists”) have discovered a variety of reasons which attribute to hormonal changes but what happens when a scientist‘s endocrine glands don’t efficiently secrete? The answer is simple... they become lawyers or used car salesmen.
The Murderer Chromosome
No one can refute that serial killers are pretty whacky folk. I’ve spent countless evenings, mornings and days scrawled out in front of my television-tube while relishing pre-recorded VHS broadcasts of ol’ Teddy Bundle Bundy and Edd Gien interviews which unfailingly lure me back to unchanged supposition, “theses boyz are whacky”. However in all seriousness, these lethal characters have developed reputations and incredibly infamous faces both within pop culture and the study of psychology but many still don’t acknowledge the profound fundamental foundations which undoubtedly attribute to the sinisterly ultraviolent activities of these corrupt personalities. I’m talking of course about unintelligibly outlandish imagery and crassly satirical humor published within the entertainment media. Since the 1940s, It’s been well-documented that television’s sensational influences are principally responsible for most (if not all) acts of irrational abuse, viciousness and destruction. While expert opinions may be divided on the exact televised publications which provoke the greatest damage to the human psyche, the majority come to an understanding that ironically driven humor and sardonic comedy is a chief element in the corrosion of decency. There are historical cases in which an individual’s personal experience and juvenile upbringing have been evident in moral disconnection but these explanations are virtually non-existent.To quote the condemned doctor Obie Zity, “If the mercilessness of war has shown us anything, it’s that anyone is capable of the inhumanity of homicide. Moreover,the public must proceed to take precautions when coaching and caring for our adolescence.For the sake of safety purposes, I am advocating the intrusive censorship and absolute extermination of any artistic creation which appears blatantly mordant or lampoons realistic events”.