• 26Jul

  Fight Old-Timers, Tooth and Claw!

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  It is nice to see that Alzheimer’s is getting more and more media attention. Here’s one way that seniors are keeping their Mental Momentum going.

  Each week, she tests wits with a group of people like her who’ve received a diagnosis of early-stage Alzheimer’s. They come to the Long Island Alzheimer’s Foundation to work puzzles, play word games and compare memories of current events. The hope is that this mental activity will help short-circuit the disease and keep brain wiring intact as long as possible.

  Blais and her classmates, whose ages range from the mid-50s to the 90s, listen to clues and questions and then vie to be the first with the right answer. And those answers come in rapid fire. Surrounded by others with fading memories, no one feels self-conscious.

  -From MSNBC.com

  Will it really work?

  Can these activities really fend off dementia and reduce the frequency of Senior Moments? The evidence is not entirely conclusive, but is strongly suggestive that it works. One thing is certain: sitting on the couch and watching bland TV programs won’t help!

  Good luck,
  Allen Dobkin

• 24Jul

  Brain Training Video Games in the News

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  There’s good news out there for folks who are looking to increase memory, stave off dementia, reduce the frequency of their “Senior Moments” and have fun doing it. What about training Attention (for Attention Deficit Disorder – ADD)?

  In recent weeks, three new brain training games have arrived on store shelves, each one promising to give us neural networks of steel. There’s “Hot Brain” and “Practical Intelligence Quotient 2,” both playable on Sony’s handheld PSP. And then there’s “Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree” for Nintendo’s new Wii console.

  Full article here.

  But do these games really work?

  Like most things in life, the answer is both yes and no. New and stimulating activities, including these video and puzzle games, can help you “use it” in lieu of “losing it.” So in that regard, yes they can help.

  But once you’ve played a particular game enough times so that the activity is no longer novel, it loses some of its potency. In part this is addressed by offering a variety of games and puzzles. Ultimately, though, these games are not much better than the typical fare you can play online, often for free, at least as far as brain-training is concerned.

  Don’t neglect your 9 IQs

  We all have those 9 IQs: spatial, verbal, math, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, kinesthetic, naturalist and spiritual. These types of games typically offer spatial, verbal and math style puzzles. That leaves two-thirds of your intelligence untapped.

  If you really want to help “train your brain”, learn to play a new instrument!

  Make new friends, write an article or life story, take up bird-watching, solve an old-fashioned jigsaw puzzle (or a new-fashioned 3D puzzle), play a sport, read something complicated. To train your brain, you sometimes have to STRAIN your brain. Just like a muscle, you’ve got to push your brain beyond its comfort zone and it will respond by making new connections and strengthening existing neural networks. That’s why most video games, television shows and pulp reading don’t help. Their too easy.

  To train your brain, you sometimes have to STRAIN your brain.

  Training executive function and attention, two vital higher-order skills, is a different story, and the Nintendo Wii doesn’t have anything to genuinely fit the bill. There are some games that we use here at Sparks of Genius in our Electronic Playground that you can use at home. You’ll find them on this page.

  So work your brain hard…and if you’re a teacher or parent, then work your kids’ brains hard, too. They’ll thank you for it later (if they don’t forget)!

  Good luck!
  Allen Dobkin

• 12Jul

  10 Tips for Maintaining a Healthy Brain from 1-100 Years Old

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  Tip 1: Don’t smoke.

  Smoking represents a major risk factor for cancer, heart disease and stroke. These leading causes of death represent an ongoing concern for all Americans. Nonsmokers might consider taking an empathetic approach to smokers who are trying to quit, and parents might use a “tough love” approach with their children to make sure they don’t even start.

  Tip 2: Follow your physician’s advice.

  Your relationship with your physician is critical to your health. Remember, though, that as a consumer of health services your doctor is your employee, so establish a good working relationship based on the understanding that you are the boss of your body. We must develop a proactive attitude toward maintaining our health and take responsibility to change those aspects of our lifestyles that are minimizing our longevity potential. Our physicians can help guide this process.

  Tip 3: Exercise regularly.

  Exercise and physical activity continue to emerge as primary components of a healthy lifestyle at any age. Aerobic exercise, weight training and recreation are critical not just to our cardiovascular health but to our brain health, as well. Every time our heart beats, 25 percent of its output goes to our brains-quite a large market share! Clearly, maintaining efficient blood flow to our brains through regular exercise promotes health. If you don’t exercise regularly, start by walking around the block tonight and build from there.

  Tip 4: Reduce the overall calories you consume daily.

  We Americans tend not to under-consume anything…including food. Yet the leading factor for longevity in animals is caloric restriction. This finding has yet to be demonstrated in humans. However, provided you get your daily nutritional needs from the USDA’S food pyramid, you should pay close attention to how much you eat. Follow the advice two physicians gave me: N ever go to bed stuffed, and eat only 80 percent of what you intend to consume at every meal.

  Tip 5: Socialize and have fun.

  We Americans specialize in stress, with little understanding of how to have fun. We need more time to socialize, celebrate and laugh! Some of us have walls around us that keep other people away. As humans, though, we need to be engaged and to be social. Kofi Annan, the secretary general of the United Nations, once stated that every time “we lose an elder from our village, we lose a library.” If we begin to think of everyone as a library, it becomes clear that we can learn from others.

  Tip 6: Develop your spirituality.

  Evidence continues to emerge that prayer is a health-promoting behavior and that attendance at formalized places of worship may have more significance to our health than we understand. Meditation, yoga, relaxation procedures and prayer have neurophysiological bases. They help to alter our existing homeostasis for the better. Praying or meditating daily can help us combat the stresses of life and focus on the challenges ahead.

  Tip 7: Engage in mentally stimulating activities.

  “Mental stimulation” refers to the ways our brains respond to stimuli in the environment. Novel and complex stimuli are health-promoting for the brain. New learning translates to neurophysiological growth and to mental stimulation in the same way that aerobics translates to cardiovascular health. We can benefit from being challenged, from learning information and skills that we do not yet understand, and from engaging in pursuits that are initially hard for us!

  Tip 8: Maintain your role and sense of purpose.

  Retirement as it is presently envisioned in this country is not good for the human brain, which benefits from environments rich in novel and complex stimuli. Retirement by definition reinforces disengagement and passivity. Our nation might consider prioritizing social engagement across the lifespan-from a brain-health perspective. Although it is important to allow elders to choose more passive lifestyles, many may benefit from an understanding of the importance of actively participating in society and finding personally relevant roles and senses of purpose.

  Tip 9: Seek financial stability.

  Research clearly demonstrates that having some money late in life correlates with better health. Therefore, a practical tip for maintaining lifelong health is to hire a financial planner and begin a savings plan that will provide some money late in life. Financial planners do not consider themselves to be health promoters, but they are. We are never too young or too old to begin saving, and the less money we make the faster we need to get started!

  Tip 10: Engage family and friends.

  Developing and maintaining a social network of relationships is important from a health perspective. Our friends and family help us stay active and involved in the fabric of society. They can provide us with emotional support and can nurture trust. Our roles in life, from child to parent to grandparent, exist within the family; they provide much health and human enrichment across the lifespan. And intimacy, broadly defined, is itself a health-promoting behavior at any age.

• 11Jul

  How to keep your sense of humor!

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  As a young whipper-snapper, I often thought that grown-ups had little or no sense humor. Turns out I was onto something!

  From No Joke: Age Makes Things Less Funny :

  A new psychology study at Washington University was no laughing matter: It found that older adults may have a harder time getting jokes because of an age-related decline in certain memory and reasoning abilities.

  The research suggested that because older adults may have greater difficulty with cognitive flexibility, abstract reasoning and short-term memory, they also have greater difficulty with tests of humor comprehension.

  How Can You Maintain the Light of Humor?

  Further research is warranted, but I’ll bet that the decline in humor is directly caused by the general cognitive decline associated with age. That’s good news. It means that by working out your brain and maintaining your cognitive edge, you can keep your sense of humor. If you don’t think today’s hip young comics are funny, that probably won’t change, but you’ll be able to see hilarity from a mile away–as long as you remember where you left your coke-bottle glasses!

  From Ninah Kessler’s article Improve Your Memory Now:

  1. Travel to New and Exciting Places!

  Engage in novel and stimulating environments. The same-old-same-old is boring for a reason! Get out there and go to new places and meet new people. Sure, you’ll forget their names, but who cares…when you meet them a second time it will seem new all over again.

  2. Exercise, exercise, exercise!

  The brain is very greedy, and it gobbles up most of the oxygen that we take in. This is why when the body is deprived of oxygen, one of the first symptoms is mental impairment. One of the best ways that we can get more oxygen to the brain is through rigorous activity. Check with your doctor first!

  3. Computer Based Brain Training!

  This is what we focus on here at Sparks of Genius – using NASA inspired technology to help children of all ages strengthen their brain functions. If you are in the South Florida area, take the free 39 Point Learning Assessment and come in to check out our Electronic Playground. If you’re too far away, then check out these programs that you can use to Train Your Brain at home. We’ve tested them and our students use them. They work!

  
  
  4. Get the Sparks of Genius Newsletter.

  Its our job to stay on top of the latest developments in Neuroscience and translate them from boring scientist-speak into understandable, easy-to-use methods to Train Your Brain. The Newsletter is how we share the best with our community. You’re invited to be a part of it all!

  Good luck!

  Allen Dobkin

• 10Jul

  Improve Your Memory Now

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  There is an adage by memory experts that if someone comes into their office worried about memory problems, there is probably nothing to worry about. However if their son or daughter brings them in, and the person denies that there is anything wrong, it is very likely that there is a problem.

  How can we help the aging brain?

  “My 83 year old mother is showing signs of forgetfulness” Nola asked me at a family celebration. “You’re the memory expert. Tell me the quick version, ‘Memory 101, what can we to do for her?”Nola is not alone in her concern. Most memory loss is noticed by family members. How can we help them?

  I heard a story on NPR about an experiment where rabbits were either fed in cages or at feeding stations in the woods, and these stations were regularly changed. So those rabbits in the wild had to use their brains to figure out where dinner was coming from. When they autopsied their brains, the wild rabbits had many more neurons that the caged bunnies. It was as if every day our brains produce new neurons wanting to get to work. So if we use these new neurons, we can compensate for age related memory loss.

  Novel and Stimulating Environments

  One of the best ways that we can create new neural networks is to create novel and stimulating environments. This can be as simple as doing a mental games or as elaborate as going on a trip to China. How we do this is limited only by our imagination and our funds, which is why Dr. Paul Nussbaum suggests that having money is a good defense against memory decline. (http://www.paulnussbaum.com/ )

  Dr Gary Small has some interesting insights into mental games.

  http://www.aging.ucla.edu/memorybible.html. He suggests that we need to include both left brained functions and right brained functions. Left brained functions would include logical analysis, information sequencing, language, mathematics and symbol recognition. This would include crossword puzzles, scrabble, sudoku, anagrams and word scrambles Ordinary activities like making lists of pros and cons or planning out your vacation are also helpful.

  Right brained functions involve spatial tasks, musical and artistic abilities, face recognition, depth perception, emotional perception and a sense of humor. This would include taking that water color class, learning to play the piano, visual brain teasers or studying yoga. Planning different routes to get to your usual destinations are also great. Instead of just taking mom to a new medical appointment, give her the Google map and let her give directions. (Of course, the success of this experiment depends both on mom’s degree of memory loss and your sense of direction.)

  Exercise, Exercise, Exercise

  The brain is very greedy, and it gobbles up most of the oxygen that we take in. This is why when the body is deprived of oxygen, one of the first symptoms is mental impairment.

  One of the best ways that we can get more oxygen to the brain is through physical exercise, which is why it is so important to stay active to the extent that we can. (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17662247/site/newsweek/) This doesn’t mean that you have to climb Mt. Everest any time soon, although if you did you would have the additional benefit of being in a new and novel environment. A thirty minute brisk walk would do it. It even helps to park farther away from Nordstrom’s at the mall. Which gets into another way to keep your brain young – have fun!

  Computer Based Brain Training Exercises

  I could go on and on about the other thing that you can do to decrease memory decline – eating a healthy diet, minimizing alcohol (although a glass of red wine can be good), no smoking, stress reduction, treating depression, using the new medications that are coming out to slow cognitive decline – but this is memory 101, not a doctoral thesis. But I would be remiss if I didn’t mention the computer based brain training exercises that we are doing at Sparks of Genius (www.SparksofGenius.com ). Using games that are specifically designed to improve different areas of mental functioning, our clients have already been able to slow down, stop and reverse mental decline, and we have just started to work with people long distance.

  So Nola, that’s Memory 101. We can empower ourselves and our loved ones to decrease age related mental decline and dementia.

  By Ninah Kessler, LCSW
  Life Coach

• 06Jul

  Beating ADHD Students

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  It happens in classrooms and homes all over the world: through no fault of their own, ADHD children are beaten with Sticks. Sadly, many of these children grow up and become romantically involved with a spouse who all-too-eagerly takes up the Stick-bashing role. Some even learn to beat themselves.

  Of course the Stick I have in mind is the proverbial Stick whose natural predator is the Motivational Carrot. ADHD sufferers get the stick even more often and, tragically, it just doesn’t create lasting results. So why do we (and we all do) use it?

  The Stick is used so often due to the (false) belief that it is more effective than the Carrot.

  Here is a phenomenal example of how powerful the Carrot can be. The number one fear of American’s is not Osama bin Looser, it’s public speaking. I’ll let Scott Adams of Dilbert fame take it from here as he describes his experience at a Dale Carnegie Public Speaking Course:

  I think there were about 25 people in the class. On day one, our instructor described the method he would use. It was simple to the point of making me think it couldn’t work. The Dale Carnegie approach to teaching public speaking is to compliment the speaker for whatever he or she does well, and never mention any flaws.

  That’s it. That’s the entire technique.

  The theory is that when you focus on flaws, you don’t address the underlying problem of being uncomfortable in front of people. If you tell someone to take his hands out of his pockets, he will, but he’ll transfer his nervous habit to some other mannerism. At best, you end up with robotic speakers afraid to do something wrong. I had already taken a few public speaking classes that focused on flaws, and I can confirm that the successful graduates were a bit like R2D2.

  Most of my classmates in the Dale Carnegie course were basket cases when it came to public speaking. Some knew they had a serious problem and others were forced by their bosses to attend. The first day was grim. One woman stood frozen in front of the group, unable to generate an intelligible word. Beads of sweat literally dripped off her chin. It was horrible to watch. She choked out a few words and returned to her seat, defeated. Our instructor came to the front of the room and said, “Wow. That was really brave.”

  And it was. We all knew it was true. This woman had put her head in the lion’s mouth. Suddenly we all realized we had witnessed something important. We applauded. And it changed her. Each week, she managed a little bit more. And each week the instructor and the class recognized her achievement. By the end of the course, everyone in the class was an exceptional speaker, and we all looked forward to our few minutes in front of the class. It was like witnessing a frickin’ miracle.

  What I am taking away from this story is how powerful the Carrot is when wielded properly. This is the secret to Sparks Of Genius’ success in working with Challenged children, many of whom have attentional issues. They come to us with a track record of failure and scars from the Stick. We find their strengths and help them build a track record of success while playing Cognitive Training Video Games in our Electronic Playground. The transformation is amazing and gratifying.

  I’ll be looking for more ways to use the Carrot in my own teaching and parenting, and hope you will, too!

  -Allen Dobkin

• 29Jun

  Memory Lost to Alzheimer’s Can Be Recovered

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  Think those memories destroyed by Alzheimer’s have been shattered, damaged and ruined? Think again. New research at M.I.T. has found that memories destroyed by Alzheimer’s disease and other kinds of dementia are still there, but cannot be accessed because of neural degeneration.

  “The research raises the prospect that treatments for Alzheimer’s and similar conditions might eventually not only stop patients’ mental decline, but reverse damage that has already taken place.”

  -From Times Online

  The research of Li-Huei Tsai indicates that damage to the brain may be interfering with Alzheimer’s patients’ ability to retrieve and use their memories.

  Dr Tsai said. “This recovery of long-term memory was really the most remarkable finding. It suggests that memories are not really erased in such disorders as Alzheimer’s, but that they are rendered inaccessible and can be recovered.”

  Cognitive restructuring can enhance gains brought by new medications as well as natural remedies.

  The scientists discovered that enriching the environment of the mice with treadmills for exercise and colorful toys of many different textures significantly improved learning and memory, and appeared to build new connections between nerve cells in the brain.

  This research supports a basic premise of Sparks of Genius, where students young and old “work out” and use the power of brain training. We believe that cognitive restructuring can enhance gains brought by new medications as well as natural remedies.

  Brain training leads to increased confidence, new abilities, and lays in mental strategies to neutralize the fear of decline. The 5-4-9 formula is customized for each student. http://sparksofgenius.com/sparks.html. You’re never too old to learn.
  As we build the Sparks of Genius Community, more neuroscientists and neuropsychologists are echoing our theme of brain fitness, defying labels, and moving beyond limitations set by others.

  Like Dr. Merzenich, who asks “Why not fix it before it breaks?” and Dr. Paul Nussbaum (download his pdf here) we believe that intensive brain training holds the promise of actually preventing changes that lead to the onset of Alzheimer’s and other dementias.

  Of course, there is more to it than mental stimulation, such as exercising regularly, maintaining a sense of purpose, increasing spirituality, etc.  Check out Dr. Nussbaum’s 10 Tips here.

  Incidentally, the M.I.T. scientists also got positive results giving mice a drug known as an HDAC inhibitor, which promotes nerve cell growth.

  After receiving the environmental enrichment or the drug therapy, the M.I.T. mice recovered their lost memories. What would happen if they received both?

  I agree with Dr. Michael Merzenich that an ideal drug would be a medication (or natural remedy) which would not only arrest cognitive decline but actually enable brain plasticity-driven rejuvenation.

  Either way, many adults who “work out” at the Sparks of Genius Electronic Playground and at home can decrease, stop, or even reverse cognitive decline as they train their brain for daily successes.

  – Dr. Rohn Kessler, Ed. D.

• 22Jun

  How to Fight Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease

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  What’s going to be the disease of my generation? I’m 64 years old, and many say it’s Alzheimer’s Disease. Scientists today are beginning to give mice the disease and then take it away. Believe it or not.

  A recent New York Times article says that most biotechnology companies, large and small, are developing Alzheimer’s drugs. In the rat race to find a “cure,” these companies are investing billions of dollars to help more than five million Americans with the disease. The Times article notes this industry is “…often criticized as making pricey “me too” drugs that involve minor tweaks to competitors’ products.

  Computerized cognitive training is very promising for fighting off Dementia.

  Is there anything else in the works that can help adults with mild or moderate cognitive impairment that lead to dementia? Science shows computerized cognitive training is very promising.

  Starting early with brain training before the disease progresses may delay onset and increase cognition Dr. Paul Nussbaum, believes that the physiological and psychological aspects of learning in childhood may act as a vaccine against Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases of the brain. Link is: http://www.paulnussbaum.com/thhc.pdf

  This is based on 1) the discovery of neuroplasticity (the brain is dynamic and constantly or-organizing itself) and 2) the fact that novel, rich, complex learning environments promote healthy changes in the physical structure of the brain.
  At Sparks of Genius (www.sparksofgenius.com) adults with labels like “mild cognitive impairment” train their brain for daily successes on home computers and in our office.

  Alzheimer’s strikes one out of every 5 people between ages 75 and 84.

  We believe that cognitive restructuring can enhance gains bought by new medications as well as natural remedies. Brain training leads to increased confidence, ability and lays in mental strategies to neutralize the fear of decline.

  Is Alzheimer’s generation going to be the disease of my generation? Perhaps. Alzheimer’s strikes one out of every 5 people between ages 75 and 84. Five million is projected to be ten or fifteen million in another 40 years.

  Where is “the cure” for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases of the brain? I do not believe any “cure” will come from drugs alone; the problem is too multidimensional.

  A holistic approach will work best, including exercise, mentally stimulating activities and computerized brain training. For more tips, go to (link is) http://www.paulnussbaum.com/tentips.html

  To check out whether you or someone you love can benefit from cognitive restructuring and receive your FREE 39 point Learning Assessment. http://sparksofgenius.com/screens.html

  Receive personal feedback from a Sparks of Genius professional today.

• 20Jun

  How to Make Tough Choices

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  One simple way we can sort out what choice is best is to create a plus and minus column.

  Put in the advantages and disadvantages of your proposed choice. Number each choice on an “important to me” scale of one to ten. Add up both columns or get a friend to help.

  Many genius minds got their inspiration after napping or a good night’s sleep.

  Still undecided? Separate your thoughts into three sections I feel this way, I think this about this and I sense or remember this could happen. The first method gives you the “what” of the story while the second method gives you the “why.”
  Now you need the “when.” This you can get by asking your self “Why is this a good time for this choice?” What can I gain by waiting, deciding immediately or not choosing at all”? For the where of this story consider if this is the best place or would a change of location make a difference. Also ask your self is there any knowledge missing I need to make this choice.

  Sleep on your decisions and listen to the voice on the inside. Often you will sense a green light, a red light or a yellow proceed with caution.

  Our minds have amassed countless categories and can assess in a moment of time what you could take months to think about actively. Many genius minds got their inspiration after napping or a good night’s sleep. It can work for you too!

  Mathematicians have determined we can make informed choices by following what are called axioms. They use numbers to explain things but we will use life examples to share these ideas.

  There are 5 principles or axioms for making decisions.

  1. Comparability
  2. Transitivity
  3. Dominance
  4. Independence
  5. Invariance

  The first principle is called “comparability.” For this you need to know you prefer apples to bananas or banana to apples or that you dislike or like both bananas and apples.

  Axiom two is called “transitivity,” which means if you prefer apples to bananas and bananas to carrots you must prefer apples to carrots.

  “Dominance” is axiom three. Here is how it works, a choice is dominant and must be preferred if when it is compared to an alternate choice it is best in at least one respect and better in all other respects. Dominated or lesser choices are not to be preferred.

  Axiom four is called “independence.” This says “no outside data should affect your choice.”

  The last axiom, number five, is “invariance.” Different scenery involving the same choice scenario should not affect the choice. Another way of saying this is your choice preference should remain independent of how it is described.

  When any of these axioms are not met there are several possibilities. The choice was not yours to make. In this case move on. You can not take responsibility for other peoples’ choices.

  Zig Ziglar says ‘Life is like the movies …You produce your own show!”

  Happy people live nineteen percent longer. Make a good investment. You can invest in worry or you can invest in you.

  There was not enough information available to make an informed choice or you were not given the power to make the choice. Life happens and life cycles, what goes around comes around. Think out a strategy for next time or watch for something effective another individual is using to negotiate the issue.

  You are a champion. Experience and coaching will help you win. Experts practice and watch for doors of opportunity. Novices give up because they see an event as defining them.

  Failure is an event and not an identity.

  Any novice can become an expert. Failure is an event and not an identity. Failure looks for servants, refuse to serve it!

  Your choice was clouded by a cultural mindset or political manipulation and does not represent you.

  For this scenario you will feel dissatisfied even when the choice is beneficial to you because you can not own it without changing your identity.

  • Think about how you can change your world one step at a time.
  • The way you see yourself is the way others will treat you.
  • Change your words and determine your destiny.
  • Your words will build you or destructure (destroy) you.
  • Go back to the chapter that suggests you decide what you would do if only you could. Find a way to take one step towards your destiny and do it!

  –Dr. Amy Price

• 19Jun

  Broke brain? Here’s the work-around

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  Research has shown that we can increase our ability to solve problems. Expand your way of looking at the problem by decreasing the restrictions so you can see it a new way.

  Here is how.

  Look from a different angle such as how would you see someone else dealing with the issue. Change the structure of your thinking.

  For example suppose you were to consider how a man can marry ten women in one month? If you see him as a man this is a challenge but if you see him as a minister, rabbi. priest or imam who performed marriage ceremonies it all makes sense!

  Life is like this too. Sometimes a solution is right there on the inside when you see things a different way.

  The flexible can be bent but are difficult to break. We can see this by comparing a young branch to an old twig. Flexibility can be learned and practiced. Just do it!

  Pay attention to error feedback—ours and other folks. It is OK to ask “How did I get this to work for me? and “What gave me the clue to solve the issue?”

  For the memory or spatially impaired this means writing down what did not work and doing it another way next time. When you hit the jackpot and figure it out write down what worked. If you hate writing or typing, say it into any recording device.

  –Dr. Amy Price

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