Studies suggest the following activities can (some literally) make your brain grow, and make you smarter.
Hmm, #1 explains Keltic Ken's secret; #2 explains Scott Jones. #3 Bono's, #4 Happy Lee Del Canto Sabag...
I'm afraid to guess who claims #5 is their secret
- thinking in parables, puns , analogy, synesthesia and metaphor
- chess.. hmm, Bono's secret? (But remember Chesterton's warning)
- music, especially when the lyric and/or the music creatively combine/mix genres (essentially a subset of #1); some suggest especially jazz....(some studies debate this thesis)
- being bilingual/bicultural
- healthy sex life (also here, and here)
- laughing
- giving up TV
- dancing
- wearing wearable tech
- coffee (stimulates neural connections to make analogy connections..so also a subset of #1)
- art
- giving birth
- being a mother
- daydreaming
- being in a terrible mood,
- exercise
- reading..especially if in variety
- wearing a lab coat
- ping pong
- faith
- electricity to the skull
- believing you can become smarter
- Googling (see this, article, this one, or just start here!)
(Don't read/believe them!)
How about teaching special needs kids? Gotta watch out for the side effects headaches and exhaustion and the need to slap administrators.
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