Each exercise uses a specific mental ability you have and activates an important part of your brain. There are no “right or wrong” answers. Maintain and enhance your cognitive abilities based on neuroscience principles. Each exercise takes 5 minutes or less. Write down your answers or just keep them in mind. Enjoy.

How easy or difficult is it to:

1. Correctly identify emotions in those you care about?

2. Recognize how your own emotions can change based on events and circumstances in your daily life

3. Change your emotional expression [facial and body posture] to reflect what your feeling

4. Manage your emotions to achieve goals in your relationship with others [for example, to make them happy, optimistic, more sensitive etc.]

Mental Ability: Emotional intelligence.

Brain Map: Prefrontal cortex and limbic system.

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