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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
cal-um-ny
noun :: A malicious false statement. Slander.
"I would have turned my back on him as the utterer of a vile calumny against a just, a brave, an upright man." --Wilkie Collins
noun :: A malicious false statement. Slander.
"I would have turned my back on him as the utterer of a vile calumny against a just, a brave, an upright man." --Wilkie Collins
These number exercises will help improve your concentration and mental endurance.
1. Recite all the numbers between 1 and 100 that contain the digit 7. (7, 17, 27...)
2. Count down from 200 by 4s. (200, 196, 192...)
3. Recite the numbers counting up by 4s and by 5s (4-5, 8-10, 12-15...)
4. Start with 2 and start doubling it in your head. See how far you can get. (2, 4, 8, 16, 32...)
Feel free to modify these exercises and practice them to increase your ability.
1. Recite all the numbers between 1 and 100 that contain the digit 7. (7, 17, 27...)
2. Count down from 200 by 4s. (200, 196, 192...)
3. Recite the numbers counting up by 4s and by 5s (4-5, 8-10, 12-15...)
4. Start with 2 and start doubling it in your head. See how far you can get. (2, 4, 8, 16, 32...)
Feel free to modify these exercises and practice them to increase your ability.
Acronyms and Acrostics are often used to help people remember specific facts.
A few of the most popular acronyms are listed below:
To remember the colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet), try this man's name:
ROY G. BIV
For naming the planets in order from the sun (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto):
My Very Easy Memory Jingle Seems Useful Naming Planets
The biological taxonomy (Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species):
Kings Play Cards On Fat Green Stools
The arithmetic order of operations (Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction):
PEMDAS
To remember the color codes on resistors, capacitors, and other electronic components:
Bright Boys Rave Over Young Girls But Veto Getting Wed
Medical students can remember the 12 cranial nerves with:
On Old Olympus' Towering Top, A Finely Vested German Viewed A Hawk
The basic trig functions (sine=opposite/hypotenuse) (cosine=adjacent/hypotenuse) (tangent=opposite/adjacent):
SOH CAH TOA
The great lakes of North America (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior):
HOMES
A few of the most popular acronyms are listed below:
To remember the colors of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet), try this man's name:
ROY G. BIV
For naming the planets in order from the sun (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto):
My Very Easy Memory Jingle Seems Useful Naming Planets
The biological taxonomy (Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species):
Kings Play Cards On Fat Green Stools
The arithmetic order of operations (Parentheses, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction):
PEMDAS
To remember the color codes on resistors, capacitors, and other electronic components:
Bright Boys Rave Over Young Girls But Veto Getting Wed
Medical students can remember the 12 cranial nerves with:
On Old Olympus' Towering Top, A Finely Vested German Viewed A Hawk
The basic trig functions (sine=opposite/hypotenuse) (cosine=adjacent/hypotenuse) (tangent=opposite/adjacent):
SOH CAH TOA
The great lakes of North America (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior):
HOMES
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