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Exercise: Just 30 minutes per day sharpens problem-solving abilities and reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s.
Meditation: Controlled breathing, mindfulness, and good posture enhance brain function.
Determination: Maintain faith in your ability to become smarter and to build skills. Assuming intelligence is fixed, or determined entirely by genetics, discourages us from working to improve ourselves.
Video games: Games that require reflexes and strategy improve attention, working memory, and reaction time.
Education: Learning promotes mental acuity and prevents cognitive decline in brains of all ages.

It is good to see that video games are included in the lists as they are often vilified for being a negative influence on young minds. Those hours spent playing Rise of Nations may not have been such a waste after all! In a recent study Dr Arthur Kramer said:

“We showed that playing a strategy-based videogame (Rise of Nations Gold Edition) can result in not only becoming a better videogame player but it transferred to untrained executive functions. We saw a significant improvement in task switching, working memory, visual short-term memory, and mental rotation. And some, but more limited, benefits in inhibition and reasoning.”

How many of the above activities are you doing on a regular basis?

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Posted by steve on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Filed under Positive Psychology, Relaxation and Meditation, Self Development, Success Skills · Tagged with Intelligence, positive psychology, self-development, Video game

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2 Responses to “Can you boost intelligence?”

Miguel says:

March 6, 2009 at 12:42 am

I don’t know if I believe that about video games. Its like saying Barbie influences girls to put too much importance on intellectual development at the expense of their physical beauty!
Melbourne Beach real estate says:

March 14, 2010 at 6:18 pm

It depends on the kind of games you play that you’ll boost your intelligence by playing. I think you’ll develop your brain more on strategy games. I’ve also noticed, since I’m an avid strategy games player, that most players that excel in strategy games are people that are very very smart.