I was thinking about the emphasis on mind vs. body in current society. For example, most people tend to have goals related to caring for the body be it general exercise or going to the gym or eating healthy or working on a diet, so on and so forth. If people seem to be obviously ignoring the body such as if they are overweight or they are home-bound most of the time, they will get direct advice about how they should do all of those things that people do or even obsess about doing.

However, consider the opposite. People who do all these things to keep physically fit but do hardly anything to develop or grow their mind. Would they ever be told to go read a book or develop their knowledge or sharpen their thinking or anything that relates to making the mind fitter? It would be deemed offensive to even say something like this but why is it not offensive to say a similar thing to someone who is more oriented to exercising their mind? Why is it—paradoxically and ironically—okay to make this person feel like they are not living well... when at least according to me living well is about reaching one's mental potential, not flat abs or ideal weight. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against the latter goals if that's what one wants and I wouldn't dream of telling anyone to change whatever focus they have. The issue or rather what seems strange to me is how modern society places so much emphasis on physical fitness or the body and so little on mental fitness or the mind.