Redo Working Memory's Hand Exercise

Now, do the Working Memory's Hand Exercise posted on Saturday, April 3, 2010 again. Remember that it has a direct and quick impact on your working memory. You should not ignore it if you find it hard to do. If it is hard then instead of ignoring it, do it again and again to make it easy for yourself.

Details for Days #18, #19 and #20

Take a pen and paper and also take your paper entitled "Top 20 Days". Now, write down all details that you can remember from the days which you ranked as #18, #19 and #20 one by one.

To remember the details, focus on each of those three days individually. For searching and finding the details you should imagine everything from the scenes of the day, see the colors in your mind, remember the faces, try to hear the voice and tone of people existed in that day, etc.

You should make yourself totally tired by doing this exercise. Your brain needs to have fun; this is a fun for it, it makes your brain vernal. So go on to find more details.

Top 20 Days

Take a pen and paper. Just relax; sit down, and write down your top 20 days; your favorite days; days in your whole life which are the best of yours. In this exercise, you can mention a day by a few words or a sentence. Keep this paper (entitled Top 20 Days) in a safe place for further use in the next posts.

Note that your #1 should be the best day in your life; #2 should be the best day however not better that #1, …; so in order. You can write them in a dirty page and then order them in a good paper.

Example:

#1. I met John for the second time at his place
#2. My dad won a prize in lottery
#3. I flew a chopper for the first time
…
#20. I graduated from high school

Chain of Verbs (No. 2)

This is the second time that you are doing Chain of Verbs; so it is important that you preform this better than past. Do your best to get a better result. You already know that is very important for your memory to get a better result.

1) Take a pen and a few sheets of paper, entitle the first sheet as "Chain of Verbs No. 2".

2) You should accomplish this practice in 40 minutes.

3) Fully concentrated; nobody in the room, no noise and nothing to interrupt you; turn off your cell, TV, radio, etc.

4) You should do this exercise with your ultimate speed, in a high speed that you will not be able to do more than that any more; your highest speed.

5) Write down a list of English verbs, starting with "maim". The second verb should start with an "M", because "maim" ends with "M". The third verb in the list should start with the last letter of your second verb. Each item in your list should be an English verb containing one or more word. Example: maim, make, execute, end up, pour, ...

You can write any verbs that you wrote in Chain of Verbs No. 1 (it is good if you can remember the verbs written in Chain of Verbs No. 1); however, this is optional.

Take a clock/timer to measure time; remember in 40 minutes; without any kind of interruptions.

Your list should be long; the longer the better, longer than the list you wrote in Chain of Verbs No. 1, so try to write verbs fast as much as possible.

Ready?

Start!

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OK, when finished, write the count of verbs in your paper, and keep your list as a record to compare with what you would do in the future posts.

Now bring your record of Chain of Verbs No. 1. Compare the result (number of verbs written) with what you did now. Hopefully you did better in Chain of Verbs No. 2. If not then, as for Chain of Names No. 2, PLEASE do this exercise again tomorrow (but not earlier than 12 hours from now on). You should get a result better than Chain of Verbs No. 1.

Solve 10 Wording Digit Puzzles

Try to understand what a Wording Digit Puzzle (WDP) is and then solve the following 10 puzzles.
Example: Difficulty or failure in the alimentary canal in changing food into absorptive nutriment:
1591997520941414


Solution:
Step 1. Consider the digit(s) for each letter that is as the same of the order of the letter in English alphabet; i.e., a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, d = 4, e = 5, … , y = 25, and z = 26.
Step 2. Try to find out some letters that can be inferred directly from the given number: 1591997520941414.
In this number, 1591997520941414, the first ‘nine’ leads to an ‘i’ because:
a) in 1591997520941414, 59 is a number that is not assigned to any letter, numbers of letters are from 1 to 26 for ‘a’ to ‘z’.
b) in 1591997520941414, 91 is a number that is not assigned to any letter,
so one of the letters of the answer is ‘i’.
Again, the third ‘nine’ leads to an ‘i’ because:
a) in 1591997520941414, 99 is greater than 26 and cannot be assigned to any letter,
b) in 1591997520941414, 97 is greater than 26 too and cannot be assigned to any letter.
Based on the above logic, find more letters of the solution as many as possible.
Step 3. Try to find some logical hints; e.g., as the first ‘nine’ in 1591997520941414 is for an ‘i', then the first two digits, 1591997520941414 should lead to:
1 and 5 leading to ‘a’ and ‘e’
Or
15 leading to an ‘o’.
4. By some letters and some other complex hints which you found, refer to the clue: “Difficulty or failure in the alimentary canal in changing food into absorptive nutriment” and find the answer that is indigestion:
9,14,4,9,7,5,19,20,9,15,14 - indigestion


PUZZLES:

No. 1. To suffer extremity of hunger or thirst:
98613119


Solution:
6,1,13,9,19,8 - famish


No 2. A foreigner who enters a country to settle there:
14131871209139


Solution:
9,13,13,9,7,18,1,14,20 - immigrant


No. 3. Small in quantity or importance:
41811415952314912519


Solution:
9,14,3,15,14,19,9,4,5,18,1,2,12,5 - inconsiderable


No. 4. Insane:
55413145204


Solution:
4,5,13,5,14,20,5,4 - demented


No. 5. The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage:
420511422


Solution:
1,4,22,5,14,20 - advent


No. 6. Unadvisable:
1454916592451420


Solution:
9,14,5,24,16,5,4,9,5,14,20 - inexpedient


No. 7. A young cow:
5895618


Solution:
8,5,9,6,5,18 - heifer


No. 8. Engagement to marry:
20518201152128


Solution:
2,5,20,18,15,20,8,1,12 - betrothal


No. 9. Not exactly according to the facts:
32152018911431


Solution:
9,14,1,3,3,21,18,1,20,5 - inaccurate


No. 10. Unutterable:
51895162491419521912


Solution:
9,14,5,24,16,18,5,19,19,9,2,12,5 - inexpressible

Count Words In Bed

Tonight, when you are in bed to sleep, count all English words which you know starting with "A". Your eyes can be open or closed; optional. Don't use any pen or paper (in bed!). The more words the better. Do this exercise until you would fall asleep.

Actually this exercise is very useful for people who have sleep problem in bed.

In the morning, you should remember how many words you counted last night.

In counting the words, you may use your fingers (optional).

Try to keep this exercise an every-night action if possible. One night for words starting with "A", next night for words starting with "B", ... In this way you are sure that your mind is a bit more maintained.

Chain of Names (No. 2 [English Names])

This is the second time that you are doing Chain of Names; so it is important that you preform this better than past. So do your best to get a better result. This is very important for your memory to get a better result.

1) Take a pen and a few sheets of paper, entitle the first sheet as "Chain of Names No. 2".

2) You should accomplish this practice in 30 minutes.

3) As for the Chain of Words exercise, fully concentrated. Nobody in the room, no noise and nothing to interrupt you; turn off your cell, TV, radio, etc.

4) You should do this exercise with your ultimate speed, in a high speed that you will not be able to do more than that any more; your highest speed.

5) Write down a list of English names for human, starting with Megan. The second name should start with an "N", because Megan ends with "N". The third name in the list should start with the last letter of your second name. Each item in your list should be a single-word English name (personal name). Example: Megan, Natalie, Elizabeth, Helen, ...

You can write any names that you wrote in Chain of Names No. 1 (it is good if you can remember the names written in Chain of Names No. 1); however, this is optional.

Take a clock/timer to measure time; remember in 30 minutes; without any kind of interruptions.

Your list should be long; the longer the better, longer than the list you wrote in Chain of Names No. 1, so try to write names fast as much as possible.

Ready?

Start!

- - -

OK, when finished, write the count of words in your paper, and keep your list as a record to compare with what you would do in the future posts.

Now bring your record of Chain of Names No. 1. Compare the result (number of names written) with what you did now. Hopefully you did better in Chain of Names No. 2. If not then PLEASE do this exercise again tomorrow (but not earlier than 12 hours from now on). You should get a result better than Chain of Names No. 1.

Chain of Words (No. 2)

This is the second time that you are doing this exercise; so it is important that you preform this better than past. So do your best to get a better result. This is very important for your memory to get a better result.

1) Take a pen and a few sheets of paper, entitle the first sheet as "Chain of Words No. 2".

2) You should accomplish this practice just in 20 minutes (as you did it before).

3) Fully concentrated. Nobody in the room, no noise and nothing to interrupt you; turn off your cell, TV, radio, etc.

4) You should do this exercise with your ultimate speed, in a high speed that you will not be able to do more than that any more; your highest speed; more than when you did Chain of Words No. 1.

5) Write down a list of words, starting with May. The second word should start with an "M", because May ends with "M". The third word in the list should start with the last letter of your second word. Each item in your list should be a single word: a verb, an adverb, a noun, etc. any word but not a person name. Example: May, yell, late, evolve, earth, hot, tip, point, ...

You can write any words that you wrote in Chain of Words No. 1 (it is good if you can remember words of Chain of Words No. 1); however, this is optional.

Take a clock to measure time; remember just in 20 minutes; without any kind of interruptions.

Ready?

Start!

- - -

OK, when finished, write the count of words in your paper, and keep your list as a record to compare with what you would do in the future posts.

Now bring your record of Chain of Words No. 1. Compare the result (number of words written) with what you did now. Hopefully you did better in Chain of Words No. 2. If not then PLEASE do this exercise again tomorrow (but not earlier than 12 hours from now on). You should get a result better than Chain of Words No. 1.