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On a serious note, dear fans of The Braintenance Blog , observing art -- truly taking the time to examine paintings and other still visual forms of artistic creation -- can and does increase your IQ , as that is conventionally measured. In the seemingly passive act of observing, we actually call into play numerous elements of spacial reasoning, cause and effect logic (and a search for meaning), identification of multiple symbols, spontaneous re-interpretations of the subject matter on the canvas (or other medium) at which we're looking, eye-mind area stimulation and neuronal connectivity... and numerous others. It is quite ironic that in the simple act of viewing a painting, so many active excitations of both hemispheres of the brain (working in communication and a kind of cooperative harmony) are taking place. For more on this topic, please have a look at my other blog, The Daily Dose Of Brilliance , and read the article which follows...then, click on the back arrow and come back...

Here at The Braintenance Blog we work you hard. We don't just supply mind agility games (as Lumosity does), but we make your mind work in a myriad of ways through a myriad of channels. A great way to have some lowbrow [nothing to do with beer] entertainment (as opposed to brain entrainment) is to create anagrams out of colleagues' and friends' names, or, if you are either a conspiracy theorist or merely an angry person who'd like to find "hidden meanings" or hilarious re combinations of brand or product names, this is your chance. If you are not familiar with anagrams, here's the Wikipedia definition, description and an example or two: An anagram is a type of word play , the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; for example orchestra can be rearranged into carthorse . Someone who creates anagrams is called an anagrammatist . The original word or phrase is...

C'mon. Click On The Image...It Might Be Your Lucky Day. It should be no surprise to you, my fellow (and lady) followers of The Braintenance Blog , that guilt - prone individuals tend to be the most honest in terms of their conduct in social and employment situations. Their level of advancement in the corporate or entrepreneurial enterprise world is generally at the median average or perhaps a bit higher. Sociopaths (those without any feelings of guilt, compunction or contrition and unencumbered by 'conscience) tend to advance more rapidly and to greater heights than do their more honorable counterparts. In fact, sociopaths generally are better at leadership roles than are others. There are a number of reasons for this centering around focus, non-distraction, leveraging of assets (Human and otherwise) and persistence despite resistance. An article about the behavior and performance of guilt-prone individuals was published recently in a BigThink IdeaFeed Newsletter. That ar...

You are of two conscious minds, metaphorically . One mind is the conscious performer, busily engaged in thinking and acting; the other (far less cultivated and not as well understood) is the detached mind. This is the mind that can stand outside of you and observe both your conscious thoughts and behavior. It is your MIND OVER MIND, or simply, the Overmind [a convenient Lingovation ]. If you can develop this overmind, you can control any aspect of your conscious mind 's thought programs and actions. You can control your thoughts and decide what you'd prefer to be thinking about and doing. This requires an exercising of the Overmind. The best way to do this is by simply being mindful in the moment of what you are doing. Do not just think and act -- use your underexercised and underdeveloped Overmind to observe, as if an outside examiner, every sensation and action and thought of each moment. This deliberate mindfulness can be cultivated to the extent that the Overmind can eve...