Recently, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) conducted an experiment of "making people smart".
The researchers gave each of the 100 people who participated in the experiment a "smart guide" and asked them to do their best to follow the suggestions in the guide within one week. These suggestions include "walking around the house blindfolded", "operating the mouse for an hour with your non-forehand every day" and "playing scrabble or crossword puzzles".
After the experiment, most volunteers said they benefited a lot. Some of them have improved their IQ by 40%.
This is a short "smart guide", you might as well try it:
Monday: Go to work by bike, on foot or by bus; Eat fish for dinner.
Tuesday: Choose some unfamiliar words from the dictionary and use them to make sentences and dialogues.
Wednesday: Do Pilates (exercise) or meditation; Talking to Strangers
Thursday: Take a different route to work and look at the leaderboards or "brain teasers".
Friday: no coffee, no alcohol; Remember the shopping list.
Saturday: Brush your teeth with your "non-forehand" (the hand you don't usually use); Close your eyes in the shower.
Sunday: doing crossword puzzles; double
(Excerpted from News of the World in March 14 by Chen Zhuo)
The last article was reprinted in many places. This morning, Google searched for "experiments that can make people smarter" and immediately got 597,000 messages. Alas, every time I watch it, I will feel dizzy and become stupid.
In fact, we are doing some similar attempts every day. Based on the suggestions in the above guide from Monday to Sunday, I think it is very interesting after reflection:
I sometimes go to work by bike, passing through residential areas and pedestrian streets, enjoying the changes of natural scenery along the way, blowing fresh wind, slow or fast, noisy streets and busy people. Look at the eight roads without pointing, and listen to the four directions without making a sound.
I will eat fish several times a week, (mainly red and white meat mixed with water or sick, try not to buy it. ) You may buy crucian carp, bream, mullet (pickled fish), or you may buy Monopterus albus at a high price from a rare seller of wild fish and shrimp (it is rumored at home that contraceptives are used to fatten you up, so you dare not buy it), anglerfish and so on. Be careful when eating fish, which may be an opportunity to hone our patience and survival skills. In the long run, I can eat a whole main thorn and side thorn of a crucian carp and put them together neatly to make a dry bone specimen. My family are amazed at my fishing skills. If we can draw a conclusion according to who eats the most fish, I should be the smartest person in my family. In fact, experts should recommend eating shrimp (river shrimp, lobster, prawns) or crabs, so I have reason to suggest that my family buy more shrimp and crabs. Although it's expensive, it's worth it as long as you can get smart! Experts should also advise people to eat more bones. For example, the paws and necks of chickens and ducks are hard work, which requires patience and good biting skills to avoid waste. I think this can improve people's IQ to a certain extent, because people's brains are not active simply by eating meat, but in a low state. People get excited only when they chew bones. Personally, I feel that the meat in the bone is not only fragrant, but also contains wisdom factors that scientists have not yet uncovered. I strongly want to shout loudly: If you want to be smart, please eat fish and shrimp and chew bones (a bit like a pig's propaganda slogan).
The above is of course a joke. In fact, researchers suggest recognizing unfamiliar words, doing exercise, meditating, talking with strangers and so on. It's all about keeping our brains in a state of exercise and relative rest. Everything has its own laws, and balance is the foundation that runs through it. We are used to not thinking and not disturbing, so we are dull and indifferent, numb and not sad or happy. Adults tend to feel listless and sleepy more easily than children. Children make new discoveries and attempts every day, and are in a state of contact and exploration for many things, so they don't think and get excited only when they are asleep, but when they are awake, they look energetic and smart. What do adults do every day: reading newspapers without interest, shopping without accountants, mechanical work, turning a blind eye to new things and so on. In short, the brain is in recess, and the spirit is not relaxed or nervous. Therefore, memory declines day by day and becomes "stupid" day by day.
After simple thinking, I suggest to myself:
1. Learn a new thing every day, such as singing a song, telling a joke, crossword puzzles or brain teasers, or memorizing a few words. You can also write some words, just like this blank text, which is also a simple thinking when you string words.
Take a relaxing walk after lunch, take a deep breath and tell yourself to be content while working hard.
3, when buying food, take the initiative to calculate, quote the price of vegetables before the hawker, and try to bargain, get the pleasure of bargaining and talking.
Do a general cleaning once a week to make the living environment as clean and comfortable as possible. Love me more than jealousy, my own nest is the loveliest.
Do a part-time job well, and get pleasure from it that full-time job can't. Realize the release of true self temperament in part-time job.
6. Go shopping when you have time, learn to bargain, learn to shop and give up. Read every day, pay attention to the news, and walk side by side with real life. Spend more time with your family.
7. Don't wear the same clothes for two days in a row. Wear different clothes and light makeup every day. Pay attention to the weather changes.
8. Watch TV advertisements and various magazines, think about what is popular at present, and keep rational cognition.
9. Read books and watch TV and movies, try to figure out the ways and abilities of good people and bad people from the perspective of appreciation, learn to be considerate and care about others, and reflect on how to effectively control your life.
10, keep thinking about one question every day: how to make yourself smart? Ha ha!