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.

The country of Bhutan sits on the eastern end of the Himalayan Mountains. It uses an annual Gross National Happiness [GNH] scale rather than a Gross Domestic Product [GDP] scale to measure the wealth of their citizens and their country. What do you think about the idea of measuring the wealth of Americans in terms of happiness rather than dollars?

Consider a scale of 1 to 10. Let “10” mean “fabulously rich in happiness” and let “1” mean “absolute poverty in happiness”. For 2012, what GHN number would you assign to Americans?

Mental Ability: Creative insight.

Brain Map: right cerebral cortex. Reduction of the neurotransmitter norepinephrine.

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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.

You are a member of a group of citizens chosen to form a colony on the moon. Congress approved the project. NASA will make it happen. No lawyers were invited to go along. Nor is there a judge in the group or a police officer.

Two problems occur when you get there.

1] A member of the group accuses another of assaulting her.

2] Two members of the group dispute who owns a bag of supplies.

You are asked to decide how these two problems should be handled. What do you think?

Mental Ability: Legal reasoning.

Brain Map: The medial prefrontal cortex, the anterior medial frontal gyrus and the left dorsolateral cortex.

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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 missing words or phrases of the following proverbs?

…………………………nothing gained.

Where there is a will ..………….

………………..……….spoil the child.

………………………….saves nine.

Absence makes…………………………

…………..….must comes to an end.

Too many …….. Spoil the broth.

Mental Ability:Verbal sequencing. Medium to long term memory.

Brain Map:Parietal cortex and left cingulate gyrus.

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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.

The Survival Game

Imagine that you are preparing to survive a nuclear catastrophe. You may choose five things to ensure your life. Under the this scenario, what 5 things will you choose? Why? What 5 things will members of your family or friends choose?

Mental Ability: Careful planning and common sense.

Brain Map: Action of neurotransmitters monoamines at the synaptic cleft. Lower brain stem survival instincts.

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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.

Take a look at a few common life situations a person may face and want to resolve. To do so successfully, the person has to decide if the situations are symptoms of a problem or are problems themselves. Which of the following life situations do you consider are symptoms and which are problems?

1. The person is 40 years old and holds a book futher away to see it clearly.

2. The person is 40 years old and gets tired more easily than they used to.

3. The person has two children and they spend less time with their spouse than they used to.

4. The person has two children and weighs 20 pounds more than before they became a parent.

Mental Ability: Analytic Thinking and reasoning.

Brain Map:Prefrontal cortex and limbic system.

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Look at the following picture and then look away. What did you see? Recall people, actions, and objects.

Mental Ability: Working visual memory.

Brain Map: Temporal lobes.

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Think of yourself as a child, describe what the holiday time means to you?

(This question is not asking you to remember but to re-experience.)

Exercise Goal: Eidtic imagery.

Brain Map: Limbic system and right hemisphere.

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What is your most important advice for a group of teenagers?

Exercise Goal: Wisdom.

Brain Map: Prefrontal cortex.

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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.

How would you describe your feelings and emotions as you think about your plans for Thanksgiving; the adults and children you will likely see and those you may not?

Exercise Goal: Intrapersonal insight.

Brain Map: Limbic system and neurotransmitters.

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