- 7 days to sharpen brain to mensa level
- Mensa, founded by Lancelot Ware and Roland Berrill, an academic and eccentric barrister in '45. Organization open to anyone who can score in the top 2% for standard IQ tests.
- 100,000 Mensa members in 100 countries
- People with high IQ scores live longer, have better health, and bizzarely tend to be taller??? Generally learns faster and take fewer risks. Quicker reaction times, reducing the chance of accidents
- 7 IQ groups
- bottom 5% "high risk of not functioning in society"
- next 20% "slow learners"
- middle 50% "hands-on types who learn better on the job than in classroom"
- next 20% "potential leaders"
- top 'successful 5%' + 'top 2%', "the best brains you'll meet in everyday life. Different thinkers altogether"
- You can get smarter through mental exercise - Dr Mark Lythgoe, Biochemical Imaging Centre at University College London, expert in blood flow to the brain
- Brain can start creating new neurons in as little as a week through a combination of mental exercises + diet + exercise. What we eat affects our brain structure.
- GET SMARTER IN A WEEK PROGRAMME (helps practise with numbers + increase memory + think more creatively)
- Daily hour of brain exercises + split into chunks ie., on way to work or at the gym
- SAT - brush teeth with "wrong" hand + take a shower with eyes closed
- SUN - Sudoku puzzle + brisk walk
- MON - Oily fish for dinner + walk to work
- TUES - select unfamiliar words in dictionary and work them into conversations
- WED - go to Yoga, Pilates or meditation class + talk to someone you don't know
- THURS - take a new route to work + watch Countdown
- FRI (day before exam) - avoid caffeine, alcohol + memorize shopping list
- Modafinil, "wakefulness promoter" / "concentration stamina" commercially in UK as Provigil, it treats narcolepsy. Or Ritalin, concentration enhancer for ADHD people.
- 100 mg a day, everyday for a week.
- Mensa exam
- Cattell III B - mix of words, numbers, logic
- Culture Fair - heavy on shapes
- Drink plenty of water, eat healthy, less than 3 units of alcohol a day
- Goal: >133 on Culture Fair + >151 on Cattell III B
- MORE SHARPEN YOUR BRAIN
- IMPROVE YOUR MEMORY
- Learn by heart a To Do list of 10 or more jobs for the day that incorporates a route:
- stroll to work / walk to the gym
- mentally link each job with one location
- buying a newspaper at the shops, dropping off dry cleaning in high street, calling home outside a cafe
- Then ask the following questions:
- What task follows buying the newspaper?
- What job precedes phoning home?
- The second job on the list?
- Where on the list is the dry-cleaner's
- Next day come up with a new list and increase the number of items to 20
- BOOST YOUR SPATIAL AWARENESS
- Navigate your way around the house blind folded
- Sit in a chair and mentally walk round your house, visualizing every move
- Or put 12 objects on a tray, memorise their location, get someone to move it about, guess which moved
- CRUNCH MORE NUMBERS (keeping your mind nimble and always on the move with numerical teasers will improve your mathematical acuity)
- Do these everyday:
- Add your shopping in the queu before you pay
- divide up bills when they come in
- estimate quantities of things you pass, such as people in a group or trees in a garden
- WIDEN WORD POWER (improves your understanding of the meaning of words)
- Go for as many of these as possible:
- Watch and play along Countdown
- learn a new word everyday and use it often
- make up anagrams of words
- spend a day playing devil's advocate in every situation you come across
- Go for as many of these as possible:
- Do these everyday:
- IMPROVE YOUR MEMORY
- try Mensa test 30min 30 item Mensa workout practice quiz http://www.mensa.org
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