The dishes. That message you need to send.
Everything says not yet.
That's the moment.
Your brain has a region that grows specifically in response to pushing through it. Not the hard things you've learned to love. The ones you're still negotiating with.
Push through and it builds.
That's the anterior midcingulate cortex.
It stays large in the people who live longest and stay sharpest.
Scientists think it might be the biological core of the will to live.
The will to live isn't given.
It's grown.

