Monday, December 04, 2006

22 Ways to Overclock Your Brain

Here's an interesting lunch time reading material (found from lifehacker).

Bullet points of the article (with my own interpretation).
1. Run Up Your Brain Cells
Go outside & play. Exercise!

2. Exercise Your Mind
Use your brain, try new things!

3. Ask Why

4. Laugh

5. Be A Fish Head
Eat fish!

Reminded me of this joke I read many years ago in Reader's Digest:
In a crowded train, a man start making conversation with an old woman in the next seat. The woman seem very smart and knowledgeable. The man notice the old woman carry a lunch box full of fish heads in her bag. The man ask "why do you carry fish heads?" The old woman told him the secret of her knowledge was to eat these fish heads. The man gets very excited as he always wants to be smarter, so the man buy the fish heads from the lady for $100. The next week, the man saw the same old woman on the train and yelled at her for ripping him off because he does not feel any smarter. The old woman smile and say "see, you’re gotten much smarter already.”

6. Remember
Look at old pictures/videos/reminiscence.

7. Cut The Fat
Don't eat so much junk food.

8. Do A Puzzle

9. The Mozart Effect
Listen to Mozart or just music you likes :)

10. Improve Your Skill At Things You Already Do

11. Be A Thinker, Not A Drinker
Drink once a week is good.

12. Play

13. Sleep On It

14. Concentration

15. Make Love For Your Brain
Have lots of sex.

16. Play With Passion!
Indulge yourself, have fun.

17. Cycles Of Consciousness
Listen to your body.

18. Learn Something New

19. Write To Be Read
Blog/Diary is good :)

20. Try Aroma Therapy To Activate Your Brain
Perfume is good too.

21. Drugs To Increase Brainpower
Coffee and tea works but try healthier alternatives, such as gingko biloba and gotu kola herbal teas.

22. Build A Brain Trust
Surround yourself with people and things that inspire and stimulate you.

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