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Remember and repeat groups of words. Memorize your grocery list or friends' phone numbers.
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Take classes to learn something you've always wanted to understand. Learn to play bridge, study Spanish or take a Photoshop seminar. It's up to you! Try something new and crazy, just to say you've done it!
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Do games and puzzles such as crossword puzzles, Sudoku and Scrabble.
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Read often, with a lot of different types of books. Take a magazine and dedicate specific time to it. Read the newspaper. Set your computer homepage to bring up news items of particular interest to you. Read them each time you open the computer.
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Play computer brain games, such as Brain Age for Nintendo DS.
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Test and monitor your memory and attention with special computer games.
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Write or edit a wikiHow article every now and then.
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Meditate often. Take calm, deep breaths out your nose only. Your brain (and entire body) needs lots of fresh air, so breathe deeply.
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Eat foods containing omega fatty acids (known to boost intellectual stamina) such as flax and hemp seeds, and fish.
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Perform math functions regularly.
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Creating humor utilizes multiple parts of the brain. Sites like GiggleTrigger are a really fun way to exercise your brain.
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Learn new words from a word-a-day calendar or dictionary.
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Use your left hand if you are right handed, and reverse, to exercise the opposite side of the brain.
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Mess around with a twisty puzzle.
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Learn to read and play music (classical music is known to have the best effects.)
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Use the Mozart Effect - classical music increases brain activity more positively than other kinds of music. Two pieces of Mozart's music; Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major (K. 448) and Piano Concerto No. 23 (K. 488), were found to have this effect.
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Draw or paint.
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Consider the different possibilities of how something could have gone, and explore these consequences. This improves creativity.
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When trying to learn something or review for a quiz, listen to your favorite song on repeat. This is an association technique where your brain connects what you learned to what you heard. Plus, after a half hour of one song on repeat, you should know the lyrics!
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Try commuting with varied routes, to prevent the brain from becoming monotonous.
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Avoid watching TV for hours; solve puzzles while watching TV to increase multitasking.
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Learn to play new games to increase mind and body coordination.
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Never avoid breakfast, it's essential for your brain to function efficiently.
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Imagine the fourth dimension of an object. (We can see three sides at a time, 3 dimensions, so imagine seeing four sides of an object such as a cube.)
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Take a fresh morning walk for about 3 hours. It makes your mind fresh and helps in protecting from diseases
- Learn to relax to clear your mind
