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Note : We are currently in contractual negotiations with the bluebird to get him to be the spokesbird for THE BRAINTENANCE BLOG -- " The Bluebird Of Braintenance ." Two of the greatest variables which enhance creativity (which happens to be a close cousin of problem-solving ) are novelty and challenge. Novelty is simply doing something which is a departure or disruption from your usual routine, thought patterns or subject matter which consumes a great deal of your time ordinarily. By the way, novelty can be a departure from physical routine as well as psychological or intellectual routines. Challenge is the exercise of pushing your psychological, intellectual or physical envelope or self-imposed 'comfy cube' Where novelty forces you to focus on those different skill sets or muscle groups, challenge has to do with applying and exercising them. By analogy, novelty is like exercising a new and formerly neglected muscle group (i.e., exercising your triceps where you...

Dear Readers: I will be returning from a brief assignment out of town on June 21st, and will begin posting regularly then. Thank you for reading me and for taking some time to view The Twitterlinks Hubspot Blog in order to find some of our information-packed Twitter feeds which suit your interests to follow. Douglas E. Castle p.s.  Please feel free to visit my Linked In profile at Linked In - Douglas E. Castle Related articles Improved Wiring Of The Brain - Trainable Neuroplasticity - The Braintenance Blog (braintenance.blogspot.com) Your Perception Of Physics: ALTERED - Watch This Video (braintenance.blogspot.com) Thinking About The Future - Its Effect On Your Mind (aboutdouglascastle.blogspot.com) OXYMORONS (Nowthen) - Brain Expanders (braintenance.blogspot.com) Solve ANY Math Problem! - Braintenance (braintenance.blogspot.com) The Special Ops ReTweet Button - Interact and Dominate (bloggingtipstricksandtools.blogspot.com) Disruption Forces I...

Solving problems involving mazes builds intelligence, keeps you sharp, wards off dementia, clears (broadens) old neural pathways and paves new ones, greatly expands your possibility thinking abilities, decision making abilities and your ability to visualize using your imagination. As an added bonus, working through mazes is a meditative-type exercise and actually helps discipline your ability to focus without 'wandering off' [like your eccentric Uncle Ned at a family barbecue]. Mazes are actually pictorially analogous to the structure of the physical brain. Navigating a maze might just be similar (on a very small and simplified scale) to navigating neuronal corridors of the mind... Another amazing (pun intended) by-product of the repeated exercise of escaping (i.e., running through or navigating) mazes is that despite the element of trial and error which may necessarily be involved  -- you find a way that doesn't work, go back to the point where you believe that you m...

A fascinating article follows from BigThink , a wonderful source of intelligence, information and imagination. When you've finished enjoying it, please return to this page for some (in)famous last words. We'll wait. Is The Human Brain Hardwired for God? Megan Erickson Why do we care whether or not God exists ? And why do so many people believe? A new generation of neuroscientists is addressing those questions directly, with the ambitious goal of measuring what happens to the human brain during spiritual experiences . Dr. Andrew Newberg is the Director of Research at the Myrna Brind Center for Integrative Medicine and a pioneer in the field of neurotheology. He's studied the brains of Franciscan nuns during prayer, Tibetan monks during meditation, and Pentecostals speaking in tongues in his lab. His surprising finding -- belief is not as invisible as it seems. Read » My personal o...

The fact of the matter is that c orrelation dies not necessarily imply causality . Just because two things tend to be correlated positively (one usually accompanies, or is associated with the other), doesn't necessarily mean that a 'cause and effect' relationship exists. In the extreme case, take this correlative study, which I just conducted myself in the The Braintenance Blog Laboratories (located in a concrete and lead bunker located deep below the desert in Area 52 -- as Area 51 was already spoken for when we were working with the realtors in our search for cheap laboratory space.): In my experiment, I found out that in excess of 95% of all heroin addicts were given milk or formula when they were babies. Therefore, milk and/or formula, given to someone as an infant, will cause eventual that infant to graduate to heroin addiction. Stupid, yes. Bad science always is. Numbers don't lie, but the inferences drawn from them can be manipulated or interpreted in many, ...

In science, we are always looking for rules and "common denominators" which allow us to understand how things happen (a reverse engineering process), allow us to build or duplicate things, and allow us to predict things -- sometimes to intervene in events and to actually shape the future instead of passively trying to predict it. Fans of The Braintenance Blog are the most curious of all.  All forms of life are constructed of nine basic designs. The nine designs are listed below and are often combined as composite forms that can include all nine or any combination of several.  From a probability and possibility standpoint, this is fascinating and vast. The number of possible combinations is unfathomably enormous, yet finite .  Here is a listing of these fundamental shapes: the sphere and spheroid the circle and ellipse the cube the cylinder the spiral the undulate the pyramid and triangle the lattice the frond Identifying the world's shapes can be a fascinating e...