Sunday, March 10, 2013

[jftyjocr] Intellectual equivalent to hiking the Appalachian Trail

What would be the intellectual equivalent of hiking the Appalachian Trail, several months of all-day effort, but essentially recreational and fun?  One wants a constant feeling of progress.

Working through the exercises of a (well-written) textbook?  A puzzle with a very large number of parts?

Perhaps there is no equivalent, as the what makes hiking fulfilling is your mind is cleared while doing a simple physical task, allowing it to wander and think new thoughts.  An intellectual pursuit would interfere with that.

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