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Juggling promotes whole brain thinking
Posted by: | CommentsMore than 30 years ago, Michael Gelb author of “How to think like Leonardo Da Vinci” found out that juggling promotes whole brain thinking. He found out that notably by studying Leonardo Da Vinci who was himself a juggler. A bit late scientists today are discovering that juggling “enhance” the brain. So new ?
(BBC)In the journal, Nature Neuroscience, the scientists say they saw a 5% increase in white matter - the cabling network of the brain.
The people who took part in the study were trained for six weeks and had brain scans before and after. Long term it could aid treatments for diseases like multiple sclerosis.
Diffusion MRI
The team from Oxford’s Department of Clinical Neurology used a diffusion MRI which is able to measure the movement of water molecules in the tissues of the brain.
Mind map your training program
Posted by: | CommentsOften people start a training program and after a couple of weeks, they wonder, why they added a particular exercise in the program or after a couples of weeks or months, they are seduced by some techniques and they implement them in their training program , their program got distorted and they lose the purpose and the focus on what they wanted to achieve in the beginning.
There is a solution to that. It is to do a mind map of your training program not only you will have a global view of your training program and you will see how all the elements fit together. There is another added benefit it is the one of creativity.
Let say that you are training with Silva ESP Ultramind course and you want to master it. You write in the center of a large sheet of paper “Mastery of Silva ESP Ultramind”, then you do one branch called “Silva” from that branch you could connect to all the books that Jose Silva and his associates wrote reading them, is certainly good for your goal of mastery.
Another branch is called “ESP” , if you know that most ESP trainings rely on three areas visualization, relaxation and concentration that can be the sub-branches, now, your creativity can kick in. “visualization” well why not before you open your fridge visualize what is inside this is a fun short visualization and concentration drill that only take 5 seconds or less. You can come up with many more short exercises, search in your daily life for inspiration. Read More→
How to mind map your books! Priceless video
Posted by: | CommentsMind map your projects and your books
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I recently decided to do a mind map of a project I m working on after I listened to an interview of Michael Gelb author of “How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci”.
I bought a big block of drawing paper and made my mind map, this is an incredible useful tool, I have a global view of my project now and I can access it at any time to add details and improvement. I will start mind mapping some of the book I bought , I m sure it will help a lot. This guy at the Mindmapswitch wrote an interesting post on mind mapping books. I might use that as a starting point and I will also probably get a copy of Tony Buzan book on Mind map.
Hypnopaedia : Learning something while sleeping
Posted by: | CommentsHypnopaedia or sleep learning is something I first heard in the book “Superlearning” from what I could recall the comments about sleep learning where unfavourable.
Lately, one guy I know used sleep learning to his own benefit, it awakened my interest in hypnopaedia.
I read about some interesting experiments:
Leshan (1942) tested the theory of sleep-learning on a group of nail-biting boys attending summer camp. The experimental group consisted of 20 nail-biting subjects, aged 8 to 12 years. There were two control groups: the first consisted of 8 nail-biters, aged 8 to 10 years, the second consisted of 12 nail biters, aged 11 to 14 years
The recorded message, “My finger-nails taste terribly bitter,” was repeated 50 times, 6 times a night.The results supported Leshan’s theory that recorded messages played during sleep incite mental activity. 40% of the boys quit biting their nails.
