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brain, brain capacity, brush teeth, Business, exercises, geneous, human development, Management, neurobics, problem solving
Probably it happened to you to meet certain person and to not know his/her name, or to tell somebody about a nice movie and to forget the name of your favorite actor that is playing the main role. Many people stuck into such situation. Especially if you are a manager and you work with lost of people. The huge amount of information that we accept every day sometimes create problems with the memory. If you want better memory, and perform better at work you have to keep your brain active and in a good condition. How?
Via Neurobics
According to James Robert Watson, PhD neurobics (neuron + aerobics) are stretching exercises to increase oxygen and give your brain’s neurons more life by experiencing or participating in some new activity, place, or event. When you stretch your mind, it never returns to its previous shape. Research indicates that taxing the brain (making it ‘sweat’) with unfamiliar exercises can improve learning ability, memory, and problem solving.
Neurobic exercises differ from other brain exercises like logical puzzles, crosswords, sudoku, scrabble, etc.Why? Because they use human senses in a new way in order to stimulate the brain to create new associations between different types of information.
Neurobs can be applied by adults as well as children. It is used on children to increase their concentration in order they easily to gain new knowledge. Adults use it to keep their brain fit, because it you they don’t the brain functions to memorize and to solve problems will deteriorate.
Today I will show you 3 neurobic-exercises ,which you can do with ease.
1. Shower with closed eyes.
Try to take a shower with closed eyes. When you are unable to see, the other senses will become more active. Therefore , the whole process of taking a shower will engage more the brain. There is another option-to turn off the lights at home and to try to move and find things using you memory and your sense of touch.
2. Brush your teeth with the weak hand.
Probably most of you brush your teeth with the right hand? Now try to brush them with the left hand (for the left-handed with the right hand). For most of you that is very difficult exercise because you need to be very concentrated when you do it especially for the first time. Moreover, that exercise activates a lot of connections of the “other”(less used) side of your brain. Another exercises the you can perform like combing your hair or to eat your soup with your “unaccustomed” hand.
3. Mute the TV.
Turn on the Television, but turn of the sound .Try to understand what the actors are talking about by their face expressions and their lips movements.
Extra tips
• Eat something for dinner that you usually eat for breakfast
• Make a strange combination for breakfast-pear+ orange.
• Eat with your ”unaccustomed hand”
• Turn on music as a background when you eat.
• Eat on candle light
In my next post expect more interesting exercises.
Some of the above mentioned exercises and the tips in this article are provided by Dr. Cole.
berlinlcalling 
Completely interesting! I would be even more interested in the web- and printed journal-based discussions on this topic or such topics. This reads as if you are an expert in the field, which I supposed I could find on Wikipedia or in a health journal. A professional/managerial approach would talk about how this issue is being discussed, or larger issues associated with the problem, etc. … something larger than a simple “how to”, or?
Hey Nico, I have to agree this is a really interesting topic and you do seem to know a lot about it, great! Another idea if you want to take this topic further might be: How can you implement these little easy tasks ( well besides the showering) at the workplace? Is this something managers should encourage their employees to do? I am sure that you will find some really interesting discussions going on about this. The structure of your post was very clear and easy to follow, however maybe you should consider rereading you post before uploading it, to find some misspellings. But I know that it is always harder to see mistakes in your own text. Otherwise great job and I will definitly try some of the tasks you proposed!
Hey Nikolay,
You know what I really like about your posts? You seem to have found your path! Every week’s blog post is about how to improve your performance. You personally told me that is how you get the most out of this class. You target questions which insights and answers may be of value for yourself to get forward.
However, I also agree with Mr. Spear that this tutorial can and should be extended, do you know any companies that maybe have a set of rule to really apply these tips to get better performance from their employes?
Thank you for the question.
Actually employees from consulting companies ,like Deloitte, have applied Neurobics. and afterwards they consult other companies how to increase the performance of the employees.One of the way that they suggest is via Neorobics.
I am not sure is that a set of rule or just an experiment in consulting companies. I will conduct more thorough research over the topic.
Hey Niko,
Awesome blogpost. Such a very, very interesting topic! You could caught my attention immediately with the picture of the brain. I never heard about that topic before, therefore Im really glad that you introduced it. I also liked that you have provide exercises for the brain- it was pretty entertaining, but for sure I will check that out and give it a try, since my memory will improve 🙂 Your style of writing is very good as well, it is easy to follow but still on a high level. The images correspond to the topic, even though they could have been more attracting. All in all a great post ! Thank you for posting that blog post. I am really looking forward for your next one- Can’t wait 🙂