Raise your IQ. Right now!

August 6, 2008 in Creativity by Peter | No comments

You can actually raise your IQ, not just over the long haul, but in the next few hours.

Your brain is plastic. Mental exercise can make it think better and solve problems faster. This means you. Kids aren’t the only ones with brains that can build mental muscle. Your brain is improvable from cradle to grave.
And since it looks like most of us are going to live longer than our parents, mental exercise is a must. You do not want your brain to crap out before your heart does.
Proof of this amazing claim, comes from Dr. Norman Doidge in his Vern Burkhardt interview, The Brain is Plastic.
If I put you in an absolute blindfold your visual cortex, which is located at the back of your brain, would be processing sound and touch within a number of hours.
Dr. Doidge’s book The Brain that Changes Itself goes into the details of brain exercise, but here’s the program in a nutshell:
  1. Exercise your body till you break a sweat for 20 minutes or more, several times a week.
  2. Do challenging cognitive activities where you pay close attention and gradually increase the difficulty.
Naturally, the opposite is true. Veg in front of the TV all night and your brain goes to pot.
Peter Lloyd writes Right Brain Workouts for IdeaConnection.

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