2023 Brain training plan

Neuroscience, Psychology, and Health
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  • Reading - 2023 goal is to read 200 books
  • Dual n-back - 40 minutes a day
  • Mental math - 10 minutes a day
  • Meditation - 20 minutes a day
  • Juggling - 20 minutes a day
  • Drawing - 20 minutes a day
  • Chess - 1 hour a day
  • Chess puzzles - 20 minutes a day
  • Ambidexterity training - 10 minutes a day
  • Visual memory training - 30 minutes a day
  • Aerobic exercises

List is completed but you can still give ideas.
Only the most beneficial ones will be added.

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I have many ideas for you:
Mental calculation,
Speed reading,
Mind maps,
Memory sports,
Coordination training of fingers movement is good for brain, so:
Penspinning, cardistry, calligraphy, Rubik’s cube speedsolving,
Blindfolded chess,
Blindfolded Rubik’s-type puzzle solving,
Solving hard Rubik’s-type puzzles (shape changing puzzles, multidimensional virtual puzzles, etc),
learn coding,
practice competitive coding,
Learning some completely new and strange part of science.

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I use mind maps to make sure, that I have explored the whole theme and haven’t lost any ideas in process.

I solve Rubik’s cube not for benefit but for fun. But i think it helped me in many different ways.

  • Firstly, I became good in understanding english because of cubing.
    All good tutorial videos were in english, but i didn’t understand enough information from them. I continued to watch videos and begin to understand more and more, because I really wanted to know that information. Now I can listen english podcasts and read the forum with full understanding.
  • I learned about memory sport from Rubik’s cube blindfolded solving.
  • I became really good in speedsolving, so now it will be easier to become really good in useful skills and hobbies. I have felt in practice, how high skill learning works.
  • Sometimes I need to do 20 moves per second. For this I needed to learn different special moves with fingers and to be able to perform their combinations very fast. It took years of practice.
  • Also I learned some concepts, that works in any Rubik’s cube puzzle and I solved many puzzles without tutorials.
  • Now during puzzle solving I think in totally different way I was thinking before learning Rubik’s cube solving. If during fast Rubik’s cube solving I notice, that I did 7 incorrect moves, that shuffled all cube, I can automatically undo those 7 moves without even thinking about them, although I never learned to do so.
  • During my speedsolving adventure my brain adjusted itself for new tasks and made all about Rubik’s cube very easy, interesting and enjoyable for me.
    I think such learning is very good for brain and neuroplasticity.
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This is very interesting, what you and Dimitry have both done. I hope you will both continue to post results/research/ideas/ especially what works most effectively. Tks A lp

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Ambitious goals here as per my standards, but it definitely rejuvenated my energy. Keep up guys. All the best !!
I will pick
200 books of @Alp
competitive coding of @dmitriyRubikscube

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That looks like 4-5 hours of training every day. Do you really need more?

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I have so much free time.

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You should consider picking Dual N Back too, it’s too underrated.

Trains working memory + some people see IQ increase over the years of practice.

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I would suggest adding treadmill learning. Walk on a treadmill for an hour each day, while watching educational videos and/or learning a language. Many universities now post their course lectures online. I watch them in increments of 15 minutes. So I might watch a course on calculus for the first 15 minutes and then a course on economics for the next quarter hour and finally spend the last half hour looking at videos in a language I am trying to learn. Pimsleur tapes also work well on the treadmill.

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On your suggestion, I tried. Man it was hard. May be after few months.

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Added;

1 article a day.

I have to read 6 articles today to catch up.

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I assume the app you downloaded started with N=2 which is very hard for beginners.

Here, this app allows you to start with N=1;

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For development of visual spatial thinking, which can be integrated into all the other skills you are pursuing, I’d recommend solving jigsaw puzzles. Have one on the go at all times. Done daily this has a tremendous effect on ability to visualise, which is helpful for things like memory palaces, Rubik’s cubing and chess positions etc… I’d probably drop the books to be read from 200 to 100 and spend time re-reading and reflecting more deeply on what you’ve been reading.

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Wow! Thank you for this message. Would you suggest me some websites? Thank you in advance!

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One of my friends reads 240+ and to be honest ı was jealous.

I will take notes from the books and articles ı’ve read and combine it with mnemonics to make them permanant.

Tried it a few times in 2022 but ı didn’t see any benefits.

Any other suggestions for the list?

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This already sounds very optimistic.

Maybe to try something more practical, like learning a foreign language?

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Any of the pursuits you’ve listed above are unlikely to generate the observable benefits you’re looking for if done just a few times in a year.