Organizer: Indigo Bay & Bloor
Pre-event estimate: 2 to 3 out of 5 (depends on the speaker)
Post-event rating: 3 out of 5
From CHRIS:
Dr. Ratey shared the five secret ingredients to become "smarter" in his new book Spark. One that surprises me (a little) is how physical activity affects your mental ability as well. Otherwise, they are quite common sense to me. It is nice that they are now backed up by research and medical findings. I totally agree with his recommendations. Unfortunately, like Dan Heath said in the last Indigo book talk, it takes more than a good idea to keep it afloat.
From Jade:
Dr. Ratey stressed the role of exercises, mental and physical form of it, in enhancing our intelligence and memory. He also explained that a little bit of "good stress" is actually beneficial to us. However, judged by the questions raised in the Q & A, it seems to me that people would rather take a magic pill or food product than spending time in the gym or doing sudoku.
To me, the most important message from Dr. Ratey's talk was do not underestimate the plasticity of our brain. I finally found the biological basis that I can become smarter every day!
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