Improve Your Memory
Learn by heart a 'to do' list of ten or more jobs for the day that incorporates a route- it could be our stroll to work, say, or the walk to the gym- and try to mentally link each job with one location: buying a newspaperat the shops, dropping off dry cleaning in the hogh street, calling home outside the cafe etc.
Then ask yourself the following questions:
-what taks follows buying the newspaper?
-what job precedes phoning home?
-the second job on the list is?
-where on the list is the dry-cleaner's?
The next day, come up with a new list and increase the number of items to 20.
Boost your spatial awareness
Navigate your way round the house blindfold (best not done alone!). Then sit in a chair and mentally walk around your house, visualizing your every move. Or put 12 objects on a tray, memorise their location, then get someone to move few about. Guess which have moved.
Crunch more numbers
Do these exercises every day: add up your shopping in hte queue before you pay; divide up bills when you come in; stimate quantities of things you pass, such as people in a group or trees in a garden. Keeping your mind nimble and always on the move with munerical teasers will imporve your mathematical acuity.
Widen your world power
Go for as many of these as possible: watch and play along with Countdown; learn a new word every day and use it often; make up anagrams of words; spend a day playing devil's advocate in every situation you come across. These will improve your understanding of the true meaning of words.
sumber:reader's digest
Learn by heart a 'to do' list of ten or more jobs for the day that incorporates a route- it could be our stroll to work, say, or the walk to the gym- and try to mentally link each job with one location: buying a newspaperat the shops, dropping off dry cleaning in the hogh street, calling home outside the cafe etc.
Then ask yourself the following questions:
-what taks follows buying the newspaper?
-what job precedes phoning home?
-the second job on the list is?
-where on the list is the dry-cleaner's?
The next day, come up with a new list and increase the number of items to 20.
Boost your spatial awareness
Navigate your way round the house blindfold (best not done alone!). Then sit in a chair and mentally walk around your house, visualizing your every move. Or put 12 objects on a tray, memorise their location, then get someone to move few about. Guess which have moved.
Crunch more numbers
Do these exercises every day: add up your shopping in hte queue before you pay; divide up bills when you come in; stimate quantities of things you pass, such as people in a group or trees in a garden. Keeping your mind nimble and always on the move with munerical teasers will imporve your mathematical acuity.
Widen your world power
Go for as many of these as possible: watch and play along with Countdown; learn a new word every day and use it often; make up anagrams of words; spend a day playing devil's advocate in every situation you come across. These will improve your understanding of the true meaning of words.
sumber:reader's digest
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