La creativity it's a skill that is too often relegated to the world of childhood. Instead, it plays a very important role in everyone's life, including adults and the elderly. A good dose of creativity allows you to improve at least three conditions of daily life: 1) the the memory, as creating unusual associations allows you to remember information better (everyone remembers a strange fact better than routine facts); 2) the problem solving, as problems often require going outside the usual patterns to be solved; 3) the good mood, since creativity is connected to the pleasure centers and therefore a joke, an imaginative solution or a creative realization make us smile and feel satisfied.
We are at the nineteenth episode of the column "Mental gymnastics" for a "winning brain”, the result of the collaboration of FIRST online Professor Giuseppe Alfredo Iannoccari, neuropsychologist, professor at the State University of Milan and president of Assomensana, the association for the development and enhancement of mental activities. Every Sunday a mental gymnastics exercise that stimulates a different mental ability is proposed on FIRSTonline. In the banner on the right of our home page or , here all the exercises already published are grouped together, which have stimulated a different ability of our brain each time.
Let's remember the basic rules
For each exercise you will be shown:
- which cognitive functions it stimulates
- what purpose does it serve in everyday life
- delivery to carry out the exercise
- how long should the execution time be?
- how to calculate the score
- the finish line for an optimal score
- how to make it more empowering
- which variations to adopt to continue doing so
Mental gymnastics exercise number 19: “A strange world”
This week we propose the exercise “A strange world” for the column “The winning brain” which develops and enhances these mental skills: creativity, language and mental associations
Delivery: find at least five possible explanations for the following statement.
WHAT OUR LIFE WOULD BE LIKE IF: “SHOES DIDN'T EXIST” Example: Walking would hurt our feet, etc.
Execution time: 90 seconds.
Score: 20 points for each explanation given.
Traguardo: Score at least 100 points in 90 seconds.
Strengthening: find at least seven explanations.
variants: Have fun finding other ways in which living conditions could be changed (use the following premise: “WHAT THE WORLD WOULD BE LIKE IF…”).
Call: Write the explanations you have formulated in the comments
