DRIP Investing for Dividend growth, Cashflow and Financial Freedom

While you’re crunching retirement or networth numbers, or doing serious soul-searching into your dream career or life purpose, your brain is hard at work turning glucose into calories for all those neurons.  You may just be sitting at your computer, but if you can feel the wheels of thought turning, chances are you’re burning calories up there.  And weight loss doesn’t depend on which parts of your body burn calories.  If you’re consistently burning more than you’re ingesting, weight loss follows.

According to the Franklin Insitute,

Your brain cells need two times more energy than the other cells in your body. Neurons, the cells that communicate with each other, have a high demand for energy because they’re always in a state of metabolic activity. Even during sleep, neurons are still at work [...] manufacturing enzymes and neurotransmitters that must be transported out to the very ends of their nerve branches, some that can be several inches, or feet, away.  Most demanding of a neuron’s energy, however, are the bioelectric signals responsible for communication throughout the nervous system. This nerve transmission consumes one-half of all the brain’s energy (nearly 10% of the whole body’s energy).

One neuroscientist at the University of Washington School of Neuroscience in St. Louis speculated on the basis of a study that the brain even uses up to 20% of the body’s total energy income. This might be the reason that real, hard thinking “hurts” for some of us, or for all of us if we think hard enough (I think we all have our limits - I know I’ve experienced what they feel like - it can really feel like work.).

Think Your Way To Thin (and Wealth!)

This suggestion is slightly humourous, but an interesting thought experiment nonetheless that I think could actually be used to some degree!

1. Save money by fasting and eating super foods.
2. Do all that on days when you don’t spend anything.
3. Spend those days thinking hard about how to automate your income and do your life’s work (or whatever the most-important-task is you need to work on).
4. You’ll be getting the maximum leverage from the mere fact of your existing!
5. The more calories you burn, the more weight you can lose, and weight loss leads to better finances.

This might be the closest we can come to making money out of thin air.

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