Idea Lawyer Blog

California and Stanford spawn endless fun...just finished my 14 day free trial with Lumosity..check it out to see what keeps your brain pink and fresh...my personal observations:
a) the pressure of scoring detracts from the incentive to "just play"....
b) "birdwatching" is my favorite game, though my lowest BPI (don't worry, the DMV already knowns about my night driving ) and I learned about the critical aspects of depth perception years ago when I tried Track Racing .
c) the lasting impression from the cognitive speed type games is the power one can bring to bear to attend to some stimuli and suppress distractions....if you try the matching games, you may want to scream at the silly check mark showing a correct answer (which, I can only surmise, functions not as reinforcement but as an interrupt your concentration). It takes effort to select what you want to pay attention to.
How does this translate into the "real world" (the non game space :): again, to borrow from cycling, where you look is where you go, we used to say when trying to pass between two narrow posts: if you look at the post, you're likely to hit it (owww on the knuckles) : IF however, you look past the posts into the gap, you'll pass through unscathed and a happier rider...so, where you look is where you go....
now, I'm off to celebrate opportunities of the day ---!!!