Just to clarify my point on righteousness, of course, it can be a virtue, but when taken too far into extremes, can become zealotry. It isn't the righteousness of itself I was referencing, but an extreme sense of it.

And you're right, there are no short cuts, the brain is in fact a muscle. A fact which not a lot of people are privy to, and can be trained just as much as the rest of our physical body, like you say.