In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.
As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.