Diversity In Learning
What formal education does for us is take curiosity out of the equation of learning. We put students in rows of chairs from first grade, expect them to sit in the same position for...
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How Neuroplasticity Impacts You
Two facts are true: 1 in 2 adult Americans 65 and older will develop the beginning’s of dementia by the year 2030 AND every thought or action you have alters your brain. It is constantly changing....
Change One Thing To Stay Young
In 1979, a Harvard University psychologist named Ellen Langer conducted experiments turning back the clock of time. She allowed eight older men the experience of living 20 years earlier. Situations were recreated by her...
Why Do Small Questions Matter?
Boredom of the brain is rampant. If you repeat the same thing over and over, your brain shuts off unless you are paying attention. The repetition of scales on a piano gets you nowhere...
Brain Notes
The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb even while you are sleeping. In fact, the brain is much more active at night than during the day. Get some sleep; your...
ACTION STEP: Brain Games
Start Aging Intelligently today, one step at a time. It’s cognitive function, or brain games day. Just before you eat, stand up and count backwards from 100 by 7’s. So, 100, 93, etc. Then...
Put On Your Dancing Shoes; It’s a Great Brain/Body Workout
We don’t teach dancing anymore. Arthur Murray Studio’s are hard to find. Used to be, in school as part of Physical Education (which we also don’t teach so much anymore), we taught a semester...