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Brain Training for A Career Boost
ENIAC, the first computer capable of general problem solving, consisted of 70,000 resistors, 17,468 vacuum tubes, 10,000 capacitors, 7,200 crystal diodes, 1,500 relays, and around 5 million hand-soldered joints. At 27 tons, it filled an entire room, consumed 150 kW of power and required six people to program its routines. Today, a chip of silicon the size of a grain of sand has the same computing power as ENIAC. ENIAC went into operation in 1946. In the past sixty years more and more jobs have been transformed until now almost every mode of employment involves complex information processing in some way shape or form. Continue reading
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Brain Training – The Smart Resolution
Although historians trace the origin of New Year’s resolutions to the ancient Babylonians, the most apt historical symbol for the tradition is probably the Roman god Janus, his two faces looking back over past events and forward to the future. Where have we come from and where would we like to go. With an exciting new leap forward in the capabilities of brain training programs over the past year, this is the perfect time to make brain exercise our New Year’s resolution. Continue reading
Brain Fitness – The Happiness Connection
My experience with brain fitness software has revealed a very interesting and at first surprising connection to my level of happiness and sense of well-being. I’ve also heard this commented on regularly by other brain exercisers. The connection seems to work in two directions: If I’m feeling good, I do better at the brain exercise; and when I do the brain exercise, it makes me feel happier. Continue reading
Brain Fitness Training – Make Yourself Smarter
Henry Goddard, who popularized IQ testing in the US, perhaps did more than any other individual to convince the general public that IQ scores were static and genetically determined. Goddard even went so far as to recommend segregating those with low IQ scores from the rest of society. His thoughts and actions would have horrified Alfred Binet, the French psychologist who invented IQ testing and who firmly believed in the concept of human individuality and potential. Binet described the idea of unalterable intelligence as “brutal pessimism.” Continue reading
Brain Training – Exploiting Brain Plasticity
For a child, learning is almost effortless. By six years of age, children have a vocabulary of about 14,000 words and assimilate dozens of new words on a daily basis. In contrast, learning a new language as an adult can be a slow and laborious process. We’re so familiar with this curious and dramatic difference between the child and the adult brain that we don’t even question it. But once we understand the mechanism and reason for the difference we can use this knowledge to our advantage. Continue reading
Brain Fitness Training
In September of 2008, Haile Gebrselassie set a new world record for the marathon of 2 hours 3 minutes and 59 seconds; he improved on his own previous world best by 27 seconds. An amazing achievement. Between 1952 and 1954, James Peters of the United Kingdom set no less than four world best marathon times reducing his time by more than 3 minutes. But his best time of 2 hours 17 minutes and 40 seconds in 1954 would have left him trailing Gebrselassie by almost three miles. This doesn’t detract from Peters’ considerable achievements in distance running, but it does indicate how much more we know today about the ways and means of physical training and conditioning. Continue reading