A Neural Exercise? Ttttthhhppptttt ...

For someone with a prodigious vocabulary and a fondness for table puzzles, it is ironic to me that I have no patience with mind games/puzzles. I am happy to think us a crossword puzzle answer if asked, one at a time, but don't make me "do" a crossword myself. All that newspaper ink and fussing with pencils and erasers. But it's not just the muss of a crossword, it's any crossword, even if it's in a nice tidy tome.

Same antipathy for any mind game. I easily lose patience. I don't WANT to stretch my brain around how many minutes it takes a speeding train to arrive at Istanbul if it's going however-many miles an hour. Instinctively, it just doesn't matter to me. I don't vest in the outcome, or the question, so I have not interest at all.

I wonder what this says about me, if anything. I suppose it's my Innter Pragmatist. It has to truly be worthwhile to me in order to get me to engage? I am challenged plenty without doing it for "fun?"

Given the family history for Alzheimer's, I'm disappointed in myself in having zero interest in these mind exercises. But I cannot force myself to like them, no matter how I've tried. I prefer to make up stories in my head. I wonder if that suffices ...