Hey, guys. In this video, I'm going to show you some really cool brain exercises that
you can do to help keep your brain strong and young. Check this out.
Hey, guys. It's Ron White. I'm a two-time USA Memory Champion. I used to hold the record
for the fastest to memorize a deck of cards in the United States. And maybe you saw me
on the show, Brain Games, on the National Geographic Channel. In this video I'm going
to show you some really cool brain exercises that I learned from a book called Keep Your
Brain Alive by Lawrence Katz, a Ph.D., and Manning Rubin. In this book, Lawrence and
Manning talk about a term called "neurobics." And neurobics is something when you use all
of your senses -- smelling, sight, taste, touch -- and you use it in new and unexpected
ways. And these new and unexpected ways wake up your brain and stimulate brain growth.
There's a myth going around that if you play brain games and you just do the same game
over and over and over again, it's going to improve your brain function and your cognitive
ability. Neurobics says that is absolutely not true. Instead of doing the same thing
over and over again, what you need to do is new and unique things that involve all your
senses. For example, here is a neurobic exercise. Get some coins and put them in your pocket.
And then reach in your pocket. Not being able to see the coins, feel them. Feel the edges,
feel the texture, the size of them, and try to figure out what coins they are. Are they
pennies? Are they nickels? Are they dimes? Are they quarters? This is a neurobic exercise.
You're using your senses, your sense of touch, and you're trying to figure out what a coin
is. That's a neurobic exercise. It's kind of fun, and see how you do.
Another neurobic exercise that's going to challenge your brain is to close your eyes
when you walk in your house and walk around your house with your eyes closed, trying to
remember where the furniture is. Now do this slowly. I don't want anybody to get hurt.
But by closing your eyes and changing up your routine, you're really testing your memory
here and you're making your memory work in ways that it's not used to working. And that's
what neurobics is about: making your brain work in ways that it's not used to working,
challenging your brain. That's a real fun neurobic exercise.
Here's another neurobic exercise that you can do with your friends. Watch the television
but put it on mute. And then you and your friends invent conversations with the characters
talking. You don't know what they're saying because it's on mute, but invent the conversation.
That's a neurobic exercise. It's going to stimulate your brain. It's something that
you hardly ever do. And that is why it is such a great brain exercise.
Next, do things that get you out of your normal thinking patterns. For example, if you always
read magazines about motorcycles or camping, pick up some magazines about something that
you would never normally read about. That's going to stimulate your creativity and get
your brain thinking in ways that it normally wouldn't work.
You know what I really like to do? I think we all know some news channels have a bias
that lean politically one way or the other way. You know what I often like to do? I like
to watch the channels that I know are going to lean the opposite direction than I normally
think, because I want to stimulate my creativity, and I want to start thinking in ways that
I've never thought before. And that is a neurobic exercise.
Whenever you're driving in your car, your brain gets on autopilot. And you always just,
"I'm going to go down this way. I'm going to turn here. I'm going to go that way." And
that's just getting into a habit and your brain's almost half asleep whenever you're
driving. I once drove through the entire city of Houston and I didn't realize that I had
driven through it until I had driven through it. And I had to turn around and go back because
my brain was just on autopilot. When you're driving, take a new route home. This new route
home will wake up your brain and engage your brain, and that's a neurobic exercise.
Here's one that's really good. Write with your nondominant hand, just for a day or two
days or a week, tell yourself that every time you write, you're going to write with your
nondominant hand. This is going to engage parts of your brain that are normally not
engaged. And it's also fun. It's fun to see also how your handwriting improves. I was
somewhat of a clumsy kid in high school when I broke my arm twice in three years, my right
arm. So I was having to write with my nondominant hand often in high school. And my handwriting
actually got pretty neat. Maybe that's why I became the USA Memory Champion 20 years
later.
All right. Another neurobic exercise is have somebody get a bunch of spices, 10 or 15 spices.
Close your eyes, take the lids off and smell each one. And see if you can recognize the
spices simply by smell. This is going to engage your sense of smell in a new way and again,
new ways of engaging our brain are what neurobic exercises are all about. And involving your
senses: touch, by touching a coin; smell, by smelling spices. Involve all your senses
in these neurobic exercises.
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