Okay so normally my head feels the size of a walnut,
but this week it's been more peanut capacity, which affects my writing creativity. I've been told it's my hormones and that I should challenge my brain with things other than just my normal creative writing.
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Apparently those who learn a new language after retirement are more immune to normal brain aging, so I've started learning Braille. To add to my moans, I've had a new spectacle prescription, which is making my head unusually mega-squiffy, too...
I'm wondering about those Nintendo Brain Games.
Do you play them?
How do you keep your mind active and challenged?
How do you keep your mind active and challenged?
I buy little puzzle books with a variety of stuff to do. They help keep the gerbil inside my head running in its exercise wheel/
ReplyDeleteI try to add in my head as often as possible. But I don't know if it actually helps :)
ReplyDeleteI have the opposite problem. My day job is mentally demanding and I have teens in honors classes. Try helping someone with Calculus. That's a serious workout. Then add writing every spare minute on top of that and my brain is in constant overdrive.
ReplyDeleteMy solution? I watch cartoons to unwind.
Your solution? Let me send you my kid's homework.lol
But seriously, learning Braille sounds incredible. I'm not sure you could find more of a challenge than that!
I play word games every day, just for a few minutes. Then I'm on the computer during work, playing with numbers. I'm always using my brain. When I get home, I feel like mush.
ReplyDeleteBraille? That is so cool! Um... I've heard that if you do crosswords and sudokus your mind stays agile :-) I do maths on a daily basis, so I think my brain is okay for now... (though I've never had a particularly good memory for events that have happened in my life!)
ReplyDeleteBy doing Sudokus and crosswords!! :-)
ReplyDeleteOh wow!! Learning braille sounds so amazing!! Enjoy! take care
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I've been feeling kinda brain dead myself lately. I figured it was lack of exercise. Walking out in the fresh air really helps my brain function and for a whole lot of reasons that aren't real reasons, I haven't been doing that.
ReplyDeleteI look after my brain by preserving it in alcohol.
ReplyDeleteWhen my thyroid meds are off kilter my brain goes to sleep. It's like thinking underwater or something.
ReplyDeleteI'll confess I am hooked on online Boggle. I like word games, crossword puzzles, whatever. But, wow, learning brail? Very impressive.
I have several games on my iPad that challenge my brain with words. My wife and I play trivia as well. And I've always been a crosswords puzzle junkie!
ReplyDeleteI find acrostic limericks a good mental challenge.
ReplyDeleteMy other challenge is (when I write limericks in the shower) remembering them long enough to write them down. :)
Oh wow what super suggestions. Tahnks for the ideas and the laughs!
ReplyDeleteHi Madeleine .. I'm afraid my brain power only comes from blog posts and what I read to get there, or search for in the links section of Wiki .. I do the occasional puzzle - but get bored rather too easily when I can't finish them! I love doing them with others .. or tagging on - I daren't get hooked up to online anything!!!
ReplyDeleteLearning Braille - now that would be interesting ... cheers for now .. Hilary