{"id":160,"date":"2007-05-06T21:21:01","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T02:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/06\/brain-exercises\/"},"modified":"2007-05-06T21:21:01","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T02:21:01","slug":"brain-exercises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/06\/brain-exercises\/","title":{"rendered":"Brain Exercises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/126\/342932428_9f0e317c6c_m.jpg\" alt=\"Brain Execises\" align=\"right\" \/>Here is the article I read last year and referred to yesterday.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/story\/0,,1723801,00.html\">Simple ways to make yourself far cleverer<\/a>.  It&#8217;s based on research at the BBC.  Here are the steps involved in training your brain to be cleverer in seven days.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brush your teeth with your &#8216;wrong&#8217; hand and take a shower with your eyes closed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do the crossword or Sudoku puzzle in your Sunday paper and take a brisk walk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have oily fish for dinner, and either cycle, walk or take the bus into work.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Select unfamiliar words from the dictionary and work them into conversations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Go to yoga, Pilates or a meditation class, and talk to someone you don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Take a different route to work; watch Countdown or Brainteaser.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Avoid caffeine or alcohol; memorize your shopping list.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, Wednesday is the day you are suppose to talk to a stranger.  I actually try to do as many of these as I can each day.  Some of them aren&#8217;t possible (like the second half of Monday).<\/p>\n<p>If you want to improve your character, read Ben Franklin&#8217;s &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgennet.org\/usa\/topic\/preservation\/bios\/franklin\/chpt6.htm\">The Art of Virtue<\/a>.  Franklin had a daily checklist he used to keep track of thirteen different virtues with a focus on one specific virtue each week.  Each day he reflected on his success.<\/p>\n<p>Now you can use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diyplanner.com\/templates\/official\/hpda\/addons\/franklin\">Do It Yourself Planner<\/a> to create your own check sheet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the article I read last year and referred to yesterday. Simple ways to make yourself far cleverer. It&#8217;s based on research at the BBC. Here are the steps involved in training your brain to be cleverer in seven &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/06\/brain-exercises\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}