It happens that you have to write an email, a message, a letter, a greeting card, but you are unable to formulation quickly and effectively ours pensiero?
Sometimes it happens that we have a clear idea of what we would like to say, but we are unable to find the right words and put them in the exact order needed to express ourselves clearly.
Considering that we are in the period in which many people are close to starting their holidays (but it is also good for those who have already taken holidays or will not take them), this week's exercise is designed to find the right word to put in the correct position, modifying if necessary, in a flexible and creative way, the sentence we want to compose.
We are at the twenty-fourth 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 amental ability different. 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.
Thanks to the collaboration between Assomensana and AIMF Health – Italian Association of Functional Medicine – on 20 September 2024, the LONGEVA-MIND conference. The event will offer an analysis of the most recent scientific evidence on the topic of longevity of the mind and brain.
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 23: “Bound Wish”
This week we propose the exercise “Happy August” for the column The Winning Brain which develops and enhances: language, concentration, planning, creativity and mental flexibility.
Delivery: write a meaningful sentence relating to the holidays, using only words that begin with each letter of the sentence "HAPPY AUGUST".
NB. The sentence must be made up of 10 words (nouns, verbs, preposition, etc.). Other words, articles, conjunctions, prepositions, etc. cannot be used.
Example: Bcontrol Umore Ostents Nnaturalness, A… etc.
Execution time: 120 seconds.
Score: 10 points for each word.
Traguardo: Score at least 100 points in 120 seconds.
Strengthening: write the acronym using at least three foreign words.
variants: write the acronym using different greetings: “happy holidays”; “have fun”, etc.
Call: write the acronym you composed in the comments 😊
