>>13692265>What about routine?I said you have to chain it with environment. The two go hand in hand.
>Is there an age limit?No, but it obviously becomes less effective as you get older. But I wouldn't be able to quantify by how much until you start getting to heavy onset of dementia.
> What about that philosopher who never left his home town?What does that have to do with anything? Why a philosopher? What do you think a philosopher does?
>Does personality come into consideration? Not really they just need enough resilience to deal with the regular intervals of change.
>I know that when I traveled a lot it just exhausted meHave you considered that your brain which is a very fatty organ and has high energy consumption may have been using more calories as part of neurogenesis which made you feel more tired?
Or that you may have actually had some plasticity... again, it also depends on how different and prolonged the exposure was to environments and the distance in environment and routine to your previous normal.
Just for the sake of argument, switching to living in a hut with the bushmen of the Serengeti is going to be vastly more alien for a Anglophone than staying in a host-family's house, where they all speak English and have modern amenities, regular meal times etc.
