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.

Some people say things they think are true but are not. Some people say things they wish were true but which are not. Other people simply say things they know are not true.

Some people understate or overstate things. They may edit the truth, e.g. they don’t tell the whole truth. Other people say or do things that distract us from the truth.

Question: Under normal conditions, can you tell if someone is lying? If so, how?

Mental Abilities: Interpreting visual and auditory cues. Accessing past experience.

Brain Map: Superior temporal sulcus. Cerebellum, amygdale, and other systems.

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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.

Would you be willing to reduce your life expectancy by 10 years to become extremely attractive or famous?

Mental Abilities: Identifying and understanding your emotions.

Brain Map: The limbic system including the hippocampus and amygdalae

Dr. Bob’s Mental Fitness Exercises now has more than 11,000 subscribers. Tell a friend or relative or enroll them. Simply email Welcome@DrBob.com or Welcome@Brainazon.com and say “Please enroll and give your preferred Email address”. To opt out of the weekly mental exercise, just click on “Reply” and put “No Thanks” in the subject line.

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.

In the 2012 London Olympic Games, there were racing events where the time difference between the competitors was small.

Suppose you meet a 24 year old athlete from your home town who, came in 4th in their swimming event. The athlete practiced 4 hours a day for four years to prepare for the event. They did everything their coach said to do.

In their race, the time difference between the gold, silver and bronze metal winners and 4th place was 1/10 of a second. The athlete’s parents, brother and sister watched from the stands. The family took out a loan to travel to London to watch them swim. Each travel package cost 20,000 US dollars.

What will you say to the young person when you are introduced to them? If the athlete asked you for a comment or advice about their situation, what will you say?

Mental Abilities: Observing, visualizing and giving good advice.

Brain Map: The occipitoparietal-frontal network.

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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.

Some people think American architect Frank Gehry is a genius. Others think he’s incompetent or crazy. Below is a picture of the Guggenheim Museum he designed in Balboa Spain. The Spanish government has declared it a national treasure. When Gehry saw the completed building, he said “I was embarrassed.” What do you think?

Mental Ability: Perception, visual processing and aesthetics.

Brain Map: The occipital lobe and nucleus accubens.

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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.

What are the three things in your life that you are most grateful for?

Mental Ability: Insight and understanding emotions.

Brain Map: Nucleus accumbens and orbitofrontal cortex.

Dr. Bob’s Mental Fitness Exercises now has more than 11,000 subscribers. Tell a friend or relative or enroll them. Simply email Welcome@DrBob.com or Welcome@Brainazon.com and say “Please enroll and give your preferred Email address”. To opt out of the weekly mental exercise, just click on “Reply” and put “No Thanks” in the subject line.

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.

Do you think most people consider a Facebook friend to be?

1] a contact

2] an acquaintance or

3] someone with whom they have a personal relationship

When a person doesn’t hear back from a Facebook friend, do you imagine their feelings are hurt?

Why do you suppose, a Facebook subscriber might “de-friend” someone?

Facebook has a “top friend feature.” When a friend is not listed as a “top friend” [places 1 through 5], do you think they feel slighted?

Mental Ability: Understanding, forming and rejecting relationships.

Brain Map: The Limbic system.

Dr. Bob’s Mental Fitness Exercises now has more than 11,000 subscribers. Tell a friend or relative or enroll them. Simply email Welcome@DrBob.com or Welcome@Brainazon.com and say “Please enroll and give your preferred Email address”. To opt out of the weekly mental exercise, just click on “Reply” and put “No Thanks” in the subject line.

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.

What will you do?

You are in charge of homeland security in your city.

A terror suspect is apprehended. The police think he knows about a plot to explode a dirty bomb in a government building in your city in the next 24 hours. He refuses to talk.

Will you order that he be tortured to make him talk?

Mental Ability: Moral decision making.

Brain Map: Orbitofrontal and anterior cingulated cortex and the amygdala.

Dr. Bob’s Mental Fitness Exercises now has more than 11,000 subscribers. Tell a friend or relative or enroll them. Simply email Welcome@DrBob.com or Welcome@Brainazon.com and say “Please enroll and give your preferred Email address”. To opt out of the weekly mental exercise, just click on “Reply” and put “No Thanks” in the subject line.