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"It's also important to vary your stimuli. I always look for new things to shock the system. Just as you make muscles grow by shocking them, you make the mind grow by shocking it."
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![]() See the entry for refreshing chamber, from the story Coventry, also by Robert Heinlein.
Heinlein was rather attached to this idea; here's the large-scale version of this idea, from his 1948 novel Space Cadet:
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