Scientific research points to undisputed proof that people who engage in brain training can increase memory capabilities while improving brain health through regular “exercise” sessions. The best method to keep the brain finely fit and well-tuned is to employ a variety of different challenging mental workouts. Here are some to consider that are easily accessed on the web and ones that you also know.
1. Brain Age 2
You’ll need a Nintendo DS System to bring this great mental training program into your life. It contains a number of concentration, calculation, memory and skill improving brain games helping sharpen your mental abilities. These are challenging and fun. Plus, training your brain with Brain 2 is portable.
2. Lumosity.com
Here’s a great website full of brain training resources. This is a membership site, but you can access a free 7-day trial to examine all it has to offer. You’ll experience challenging brain exercises that with repeated use, will have you scoring higher.
3. PlayWithYourMind.com
Surf here to find more than a 100 puzzles, exercises and brain games that are all original and always fun. You will find a full array of different and challenging tests to improve your brain fitness and health.
4. Happy-Neuron.com
If you are looking to find brain-training resources broken down into categories, this is the site for you. Find activities and brain games in five areas: memory, visual/spatial, executive functions, language and attention. There is a $9.95 per month membership fee.
5. MyBrainTrainer.com
This particular site is analogous to going to the “gym” for a workout, but this is a brain workout “facility” that encourages its clientele to involve 10 minutes of brain exercising at least twice per week. Monthly “gym” fee is $9.95 and includes a recommended 21 day training program claiming to improve mental acuity.
6. Crosswords
Everyone knows Crossword puzzles. These are – next to pure math problems – classic brain trainers that access verbal language and memory skills tapping into individual knowledge possessed and employment of basic deductive reasoning powers. It may be quite challenging at first to many newcomers – frustrating as well – but stick with it.
7. Sudoku
As Crossword Puzzles are to language as Sudoku is to number remembering. Successfully completing a Sudoku game requires forward thinking while experiencing the consequences from chosen moves. You develop planning skills helping improve both concentration and short-term memory.
8. Braingle.com
This site claims it has the largest collection of brain teasers in the known cyber universe. Plus it is free providing more than 10,000 teasers, brain games and puzzles. An interesting feature for users is creating your own puzzles.
9. Queendom.com
This is an extremely addictive free site offering thousands of surveys and personality tests. There also is an extensive collection of brain exercising tools.
10. Brainbuilder.com
Surf here to find a collection of “cognitive” exercises through an online trainer that can also track your brain fitness progress using baseline testing and employing a recommended and comprehensive training program. There is a $7.95 per month memberships fee but you can gain a 7-day evaluation trial for free.
19 Ekim 2010 Salı
Do intelligent people tend to be unhappy?
I have a lot of friends around who seems to be have a higher IQ than avarage people. But generally, including me, they find a lot of things to be sad. They are generally introverted and tend to be unhappy. Although they are successful at a lot of things like money, career, spouse…
A search about how intelligent people tend to be unhappy, enlightened me a lot. They say;
Children develop along four streams: intellectual, physical, emotional (psychological) and social. In classrooms, the smartest kids tend to be left out of more activities by other children than they are included in. They are “odd,” they are the geeks, they are social outsiders. In other words, they do not develop socially as well as they may develop intellectually or even physically where opportunities may exist for more progress.
Their emotional development, characterized by their ability to cope with risky or stressful situations, especially over long periods of time, also lags behind that of the average person.
Adults tend to believe that intelligent kids can deal with anything because they are intellectually superior. This inevitably includes situations where the intelligent kids have neither knowledge nor skills to support their experience. They go through the tough times alone. Adults don’t understand that they need help and other kids don’t want to associate with kids the social leaders say are outsiders.
It seems very logical to me. And this can explain why those friends of mine are so unhappy. So what about you, Are you unhappy and intelligent?
A search about how intelligent people tend to be unhappy, enlightened me a lot. They say;
Children develop along four streams: intellectual, physical, emotional (psychological) and social. In classrooms, the smartest kids tend to be left out of more activities by other children than they are included in. They are “odd,” they are the geeks, they are social outsiders. In other words, they do not develop socially as well as they may develop intellectually or even physically where opportunities may exist for more progress.
Their emotional development, characterized by their ability to cope with risky or stressful situations, especially over long periods of time, also lags behind that of the average person.
Adults tend to believe that intelligent kids can deal with anything because they are intellectually superior. This inevitably includes situations where the intelligent kids have neither knowledge nor skills to support their experience. They go through the tough times alone. Adults don’t understand that they need help and other kids don’t want to associate with kids the social leaders say are outsiders.
It seems very logical to me. And this can explain why those friends of mine are so unhappy. So what about you, Are you unhappy and intelligent?
Sadness may be good for you!
Manythings we do have an big goal in common; to be happy. I, myself, started this blog to be happy, and make you find easy ways to find happiness. But did you know that sadness may be good for you?
Some scientists claim that sadness is good for us because it helps us cope with life’s challenges, more resilient and spur them to greater achievements.
Prof Wakefield, of New York University, believes human sadness helps us learn from our mistakes.
He said: “I think one of the functions of intense negative emotions is to stop our normal functioning – to make us focus on something else for a while.”
It also might act as a psychological deterrent to prevent us from making those mistakes in the first place, reports New Scientist.
The risk of sadness may deter us from being too impetuous or cavalier, especially in relationships or with other things we value.
Dr Paul Keedwell, a psychiatrist at Cardiff University, said even full-blown depression may save us from the effects of long-term stress.
He says without taking time out to reflect “you might stay in a state of chronic stress until you’re exhausted or dead.”
Some scientists claim that sadness is good for us because it helps us cope with life’s challenges, more resilient and spur them to greater achievements.
Prof Wakefield, of New York University, believes human sadness helps us learn from our mistakes.
He said: “I think one of the functions of intense negative emotions is to stop our normal functioning – to make us focus on something else for a while.”
It also might act as a psychological deterrent to prevent us from making those mistakes in the first place, reports New Scientist.
The risk of sadness may deter us from being too impetuous or cavalier, especially in relationships or with other things we value.
Dr Paul Keedwell, a psychiatrist at Cardiff University, said even full-blown depression may save us from the effects of long-term stress.
He says without taking time out to reflect “you might stay in a state of chronic stress until you’re exhausted or dead.”
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