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Brain Training Doesn’t Make You Smarter
If you’ve spent more than about 5 minutes surfing the web, listening to the radio, or watching TV in the past few years, you will know that cognitive training—better known as “brain training”—is one of the hottest new trends in self improvement. Lumosity, which offers web-based tasks designed to improve cognitive abilities such as...
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Does it make you smarter? Probably not. Sharper? Absolutely... but don't invest your time into bullshit like Luminocity. Play games like Portal 1 and 2, games that require you to problem solve and think out side the box. I've noticed that playing those games definitely helps me to solve problems and get good at noticing the issues quicker. I am in no way smarter because of it, but ill take "sharper" over nothing any day.