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Don’t Outsource Your Brain

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brainWe have sug­gest­ed before (The Ten Habits of High­ly Effec­tive Brains)…

“Don’t Out­source Your Brain. Not to media per­son­al­i­ties, not to politi­cians, not to your smart neigh­bour… Make your own deci­sions, and mis­takes. And learn from them. That way, you are train­ing your brain, not your neighbour’s.”

Well, let me add now: Don’t Out­source Your Brain to Your GPS sys­tem, either…

Read arti­cle: here (via Drudge)

- “A 32-year-old Cal­i­forn­ian whose rental car got smashed by a Metro-North train last night was issued a minor sum­mons for caus­ing the fiery crash that strand­ed rail­road com­muters for hours.”GPS

- “Bo Bai, a com­put­er tech­ni­cian from Sun­ny­vale who said he was mere­ly trust­ing his car’s glob­al posi­tion­ing sys­tem when he steered onto the tracks, was cit­ed for obstruct­ing a rail­road cross­ing, offi­cials said this afternoon.”

For­tu­nate­ly, the dri­ver was safe, and there were no injuries. The arti­cle deserves read­ing…here.

This is a Brain Fitness Center.

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Today we issued the fol­low­ing press release, and are work­ing hard to get every­thing ready by Jan­u­ary (every­thing works now, but we want to pol­ish it). Please view this web­site as research in action, a liv­ing hypoth­e­sis. We are doing this because we love to learn and help. Please help us learn-feel free to give us any sug­ges­tion, feed­back, crit­i­cism. We are in the busi­ness of engag­ing brains.
The Sharp­Brains team
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Decem­ber 12, 2006 08:01 AM East­ern Time

A New Year’s Fitness Resolution for your Head

– Sharp­Brains Is the First Online Brain Fit­ness Cen­ter to Offer Eval­u­a­tions, Men­tal Exer­cise Pro­grams and Per­son­al Coach­ing to Improve Mem­o­ry, Con­cen­tra­tion, and Stress Man­age­ment –

New Year’s Resolutions

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Getting in shape is at the top of almost every­one’s list of New Year’s res­o­lu­tions. How­ev­er, this hol­i­day sea­son, lead­ing experts are encour­ag­ing Amer­i­cans to join a dif­fer­ent kind of health club: one for their brains.SharpBrains.com is the first online brain fit­ness cen­ter ded­i­cat­ed to pro­vid­ing per­son­al­ized brain fit­ness eval­u­a­tions; men­tal exer­cise pro­grams to stim­u­late the brain and improve stress man­age­ment; and per­son­al online men­tal exer­cise coach­ing. Sim­i­lar to a train­er at a phys­i­cal fit­ness cen­ter, Sharp­Brains’ cus­tomers can ini­tial­ly under­go an eval­u­a­tion of their needs fol­lowed by sub­se­quent rec­om­men­da­tions for a suit­able com­put­er-based pro­gram to tar­get and strength­en essen­tial core “men­tal muscles.“      

“Research has shown that con­trary to pop­u­lar belief, the brain is con­stant­ly under­go­ing neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis, the devel­op­ment of new neu­rons and den­drites,” said Dr. Elkhonon Gold­berg, Clin­i­cal Pro­fes­sor of Neu­rol­o­gy at New York Uni­ver­si­ty School of Med­i­cine and Chief Sci­en­tif­ic Advi­sor & Co-Founder of Sharp­Brains. “Learn­ing and tar­get­ed men­tal exer­cise pro­motes neu­ro­ge­n­e­sis – the cre­ation of new neu­rons – just as mus­cle growth is pro­mot­ed through phys­i­cal exer­cise.” [Read more…] about This is a Brain Fit­ness Center.