Yes. Thanks
Tom Kindlon for getting this out there. Some very apt comments.
I must admit that this one got me thinking overnight, which is why I think I didn't make my own comment earlier.
When I first read that I thought "but this guy reads science papers and has even published one. And there's no way I could do that; and yet I find that often I can
only read novels..."
So it made me think. I wasn't thinking of critiquing you my friend; but I did stop and ponder. I don't have a background in science and so for me science papers - reading and understanding - would be a stretch even when I was well.
I do struggle very much in comprehending and then regurgitating information now, even in composing letters; whereas before I obviously didn't. I struggle with reading and comprehension generally now; cognition is a MAJOR concern of mine.
But I think your point here is that you need to pick and choose carefully what you can and can't do; and that's precisely the same as me. I can still read. I can still comprehend. I can still write letters. It all just takes so much longer to do.
We all need to make choices with what we can and can't do and what we want to do (our priorities) based on the ability we now have to do them; and whether or not the sacrifice is worth pursuing it. The sacrifice being 'energy' and also the things we decide not to do.
So thanks for the article and for the author for publishing the words from you that he did. It made me think and that's not always a bad thing