101 Ways to Improve Your Mind: A Guide to Wising Up and Getting Smart
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Whether you want to improve your memory, think more clearly or stave off ageing, 101 Ways to Improve Your Mind will provide you with the tips and tricks to keep your grey matter in top condition and put the spring back into your mental step.
It's never too late to boost your brainpower and make the most of your mind. With this light-hearted and pithy, yet effective, handbook, you will learn to think more clearly, organize your mental chaos and keep your brain quick, sharp and youthful.
With tips and advice on how to improve your general health, modify your diet and adjust your lifestyle, it's not all about the brain. This simple and practical advice is an essential part of a healthy life and will improve all aspects of your daily habits.
Clever tips are included such as: learning a foreign language helps to protect the brain against the onset of age-related diseases; saunas can increase your cardiovascular strength and improve blood supply to the brain; laughter stimulates the brain, thus enhancing our learning abilities.
Rachel Walker
Rachel Walker has contributed to Michael O'Mara's brain training and puzzle series with 101 Ways to Improve Your Mind.
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101 Ways to Improve Your Mind - Rachel Walker
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PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
No one becomes proficient in any skill or profession in life – be they a tennis player, a mathematician, an artist, or a scientist – without a great deal of hard work, and in most cases, a huge amount of practice. Improving your mind is no exception. It requires dedication, a constant willingness to learn and to broaden your horizons, and in some cases, an entirely different approach to diet and exercise. No one said it would be easy!
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.
GALILEO GALILEI, ITALIAN ASTRONOMER AND PHYSICIST, 1564–1642
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QUIZ 1
Completing riddles and puzzles of all descriptions is an excellent way of keeping the mind on its figurative toes. It isn’t important whether you solve them quickly or slowly, but the thought processes involved in trying to work out what at first seems like an impossible problem will begin to open up new neural pathways and encourage you to think from different angles. To get the mental cogs whirring, try solving these riddles.
I am light as a feather, but big as a barn.
Sixty horses can’t pull me off the ground.
What am I?
As a whole, I am safe and secure.
Behead me, and I become a place of meeting.
Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready.
Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts.
I’m where yesterday follows today,
And tomorrow’s between them.
What am I?
I can run, but not walk.
Wherever I go, thought follows close behind.
What am I?
You are in the room before Heaven and Hell, and leading to each destination is a nondescript door. In front of each door is a talking parrot. One of the parrots always tells the truth; the other always tells a lie. You have no idea which bird is in front of which door. You can ask one of the birds one question to determine correctly the doorway to Heaven. What question do you ask, and to which