Use these brain boosters to increase brain power for faster
learning, better memory, sharper thinking, out-of-the-box problem solving, more
efficiency and productivity and enhanced creativity and get you thinking like
the great thinkers. Don’t make working your brain a chore!
- Meditate: The brain exercise! Stress clouds your thinking, so relieve stress with meditation.
- Work on being ambidextrous. Brush your hair, write, use the mouse and eat/drink with the “wrong” hand.
- When something is broken, find creative repair solutions using common objects. Make do with what you have; make repairs with odd items and ingenuity.
- Learn to convincingly argue every side of an argument.
- Write with the wrong hand.
- Write backwards with both. Read upside down (the text, not you). Hydrate.
- Water enhances the brain’s electro-chemical activity – dehydration slows it! Change your perspective.
- Turn the pictures in your home upside down for a while.
- Doodle and draw visual solutions to problems instead of using numbers or text.
- Mentally estimate the passage of time.
- Listen to classical music.
- Power nap. Stop procrastinating! Exercise daily.
- Eat exceptionally well. Give your brain energy and nutrients, not fillers and chemicals from junk/processed food. Solve math problems without a calculator.
- Remember phone numbers.
- Mix up your routine. Play chess – especially a prolonged email version.
- Solve optical illusions. Play brain games like crosswords or Sudoku.
- Watch TED talks (www.ted.com) Be curious about everything, like a child.
- Think positively. What can go right? Create “top 100 lists” of things to be grateful for, learn, places to visit, etc.
- Keep a journal. Write down ideas as soon as you have them and return to them often.
- Simplify, declutter and organize your living and work space.
- Take a class in something you’ve never explored.
- Take several 10-minute brisk walk-breaks throughout the day.
- Learn to spell backwards. Change the furniture placement and art/accessories in your home.
- Learn to play a musical instrument (and read music). ‘Be’.
- Observe the world without judgment, classification, or even thought.
- Share something you’ve just learned or don’t know well.
- The process of explaining something helps clarify it.
- Problem-solve from a different perspective.
- How would different people approach this problem: the rich, poor, crazy, geniuses, achievers and slackers…? Take up a new hobby.
- Find connections between seemingly unrelated items, topics or people.
- Creatively visualize your ideal life.
- Take a slow day: do everything at half the speed and twice the awareness.
- Learn memory techniques.
- Surround yourself with intelligent, positive people.
- Learn and use a new word every day.
- Travel abroad.
- Stop multitasking.
- Do one thing at a time, exceptionally well.
- Be in Nature.
- Collect quotes by great thinkers.
- Learn to lucid dream.
- Remember and record your dreams.
- Say your problems out loud, as if you were explaining them to a stranger.
- Play.
- Use a reverse clock.
- Learn yoga, tai chi or the martial arts.
- Become hyper-aware of your environment.
- Identify and locate the sources of sounds; subtle changes in temperature; different smells, etc. Get enough sleep (Can’t sleep because of stress? Meditate!) Eat less.
- Laugh!
These are fun, they keep life interesting and Best of all
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