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- Exercises for Keeping a Young Mind
Collected and edited by Dang Phuong Ha
Simply put, your mind needs some exercise in order to stay young and healthy. The basis for
brain’s life is processing of new data and stimuli. Our minds should be regularly exposed to updated
information and new experiences, in order to reach higher levels of creativity, openness, speed, and
adaptation. Looking for new ways of thinking is an excellent exercise for being smarter and more
sociable. Nevertheless, in the following I detail a neat list of simple exercises for improving our minds’
state:
1. Solve some puzzles and crosswords: A puzzle is a problem or enigma that challenges ingenuity.
Basically, you piece together objects in a logical way in order to come up with the desired shape,
picture or solution (obviously, a crossword is a type of puzzle.) Puzzles are often viewed as a form of
simple entertainment, but they are powerful allies for increasing brain activity.
Enigma: điều bí ẩn
Ingenuity: tài khéo léo
Entertainment: sự giải trí
Allies: những sự liên kết
2. Learn new languages: Language proves the high dynamics and adaptability of the brain. When we
are learning a new language, our brain adapts to the new expressions and forms based on those
qualities in the already understood language. This way, learning a new language changes the brain’s
structure. This ability is typical of young minds.
Dynamic: động lực
Adaptability: khả năng thích nghi,
thích ứng
Expressions: thành ngữ
Structure: cấu trúc
- 3. Play some musical instrument: The effect is similar to learning a new language, albeit in another
dimension. The musical mind is also fairly complex, and acquiring a basic level of coordination and
musical receptive ability depends on the brain regrouping the perceived and repeated musical
structures. That’s what we are after: an active brain.
Albeit: mặc dù
Dimension: chiều, chiều hướng
Receptive: dễ t i ếp thu, dễ lĩnh
hội
Perceive: hiểuđược, lĩnh hội
được, nắm được
4. Play a videogame you like: Long gone are the times when videogames were only for kids.
Currently, we have games for all ages. Go and choose a game you like, and start playing. If the game is
good, you will barge into environments involving series of decisions. Such artificial environments
provide plenty of stimuli, and our brains will be reacting to them.
Long gone: Đã qua lâu rồ i
Barge into: va phải
Series of decisions: 1 loạt những quyết
định
Artificial: nhân tạo
Stimuli (số nhiều của stimulus): sự kích
thích, tác nhân kích thí ch
5. Do some calculus and mathematical operations: Besides keeping our math fresh, mathematical
operations activate the left side of the brain.
Calculus: Tính toán, bài toán
Mathematical operation: Bài toán
- 6. Try to write with your opposite hand: Switching hands stimulates other parts of our brains, which
therefore improves logical reasoning and creativity. Think outside the box. Besides writing, try other
things such as brushing your teeth with your wrong hand.
Opposite hand: tay không thuận
Switch: chuyển sang
7. Read, provide summaries of the texts, and try to retain the key concepts: This exercises
concentration, abstraction, retention, and general relation of ideas. By doing summaries, your mind
forms a network of concepts.
Summaries of the texts: tóm tắt các văn
bản.
Retain: giữ lại
Concept: khái niệm, ý niệm chung
8. Take a shower with your eyes closed: Train your brain to work with incomplete information.
9. Talk to your friends: A circle of good friends is a very important requirement for keeping a healthy
mind. Bad friends are no friends at all, and mean a waste of your time and positive energy.
Finally, we should keep in our minds that young brains never stop changing and adjusting.
Sound sleep and healthy eating is very important too. And you always have the right to change your
mind (thay đổi quyết định).
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