Every person living on the planet certainly asks questions about his development at a certain period of his life, but unfortunately, most often the physical aspects of human health and strength come to the fore, but the development of mental capabilities is no less important, and sometimes can play a decisive role in the fate of the individual.
Human brain activity has not been fully studied and definitely consists of many processes that require an individual approach and their own methods of training and stimulation. However, at this stage we will consider such a broad concept as thinking and those effective ways of influencing it, which will lead to the formation of effective thinking in its various forms and directions.
Technologies for the development of thinking
Undoubtedly, to begin to develop, you do not need a lot of financial costs and any equipment as when playing sports, you only need a few free minutes a day (say, 15-30 minutes), consistency and effective use of the allocated time. Undoubtedly, the conditions for the development of thinking do not necessarily require special programs or only the indicated exercises; however, thinking simulators will help you rationally use your time. Their developers implement the latest research in this area for a comprehensive impact on each type of thinking. With this approach, everyone receives an even mental load, without depriving attention of that space of the brain that is rarely used in everyday work.
Types of thinking that need to be systematically developed:
- Boolean
- Abstract
- Creative
- Visually effective
- Visual-figurative
Vikium
According to the creators, regular training on Vikium simulators allows you to improve your reaction speed by 17% per week. Memory - by 19% in 2-3 weeks. The concentration will double in two months. Exercise helps create new and strengthen old connections in the brain.
Daily activities include warming up and actually solving puzzles in which you need to look for small objects, solve examples or memorize images. The workout takes 15 minutes.
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Logical thinking
This is perhaps the most popular part of the mental process, which is remembered first and many simulators are offered for its development. The approach to this type should be comprehensive, but it is worth understanding that this systematization does not reflect a complete picture of all the processes inherent in logical thinking. Therefore, let us consider those components of the process under study, on which development work will be carried out in the future.
- Analysis is an understanding of the structure of things, the ability to mentally divide something down to the smallest components and find connections between them. Whether it is the structure of living tissue, the chemical composition of a material, or a chain of events leading to one result, analysis will help to understand the essence of what is happening down to the smallest detail.
- Comparison is the ability to accurately highlight all similar and opposite elements of things, events, concepts. Even unrelated objects can have common features or be completely different, and to correctly classify them, it is necessary to develop this ability.
- Synthesis is the creation of one general structure from its individual parts, sometimes in a different order or combination than it was before. This ability extends to both physical and abstract objects, as well as chains of events that can be interpreted in different ways. Training the ability to synthesize is underestimated and important, it helps to see different connections in seemingly obvious things.
- Abstraction is the use of abstract concepts in the thought process to replace specific images. In this case, a person consciously distracts himself from unimportant details in order to see the whole picture.
Methods for developing logical thinking are quite simple and include a lot of exercises, which are not only collected in simulators, but are also available in a separate version to everyone who wants to develop:
- Reading is an easy way to influence your thinking abilities, and the genre and style of the material is not so important. The reader learns to process the information received, analyze it, draw preliminary conclusions, and correct them in the process of obtaining new information. It is difficult to imagine a developing personality who does not read at all; this is a small but very important step in self-development.
- Logic games are an opportunity to combine a pleasant pastime with a useful activity for the mind. There are many such exercises and they are presented both in digital versions and in physical board games.
- Online simulators are the same exciting classes collected in one place, but they already offer an effective, quick analysis of your actions and are aimed at improving your results.
- Logical chains are a simple activity that is accessible even to children; its essence is to, from a chain of pre-written words, reasonably cross out the unnecessary things that are not connected with the rest.
- Logical connection is a task that asks you to find between, at first glance, completely different words, as many facts as possible that unite them.
- Keeping a diary is a very useful habit that allows you to analyze the events that have passed during the day and express them in writing, give them your assessment and suggest the reasons for this result.
- Sentences with unrelated words - as the name suggests, you need to construct a sentence that is as interesting and attractive as possible with several unrelated words that are thought up and written down in advance. The number of such words can regulate the difficulty level of the exercise.
Da'Vinci Mysteries: Quiz
In this educational game you need to answer questions from various fields: geography, art, mathematics, cinema, and so on. There are two modes. In one, the player has access to answer options, in the other, only guiding hints. If you answer incorrectly, the app will prompt you with the correct answer to help you fill the knowledge gap. If you wish, you can connect to a random player and answer one by one, competing in the number of points scored.
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Abstract thinking
It is often called verbal or verbal-logical, since it operates with words, and from a huge array of words, a person selects the most significant for a given situation and from them composes a short description in his head. In this process, all additional words and concepts that do not carry a key meaning are not taken into account, but only convey color or an emotional component.
Training verbal thinking is important for everyone, but especially for children who still have a lot to learn, and this ability will take the effectiveness and ease of learning to a new level.
This type, like the previous one, operates on several main components:
- Concept – groups of objects united by the same characteristics. In this case, each of the objects individually is not important, but only the key characteristics inherent in all of them.
- Judgment - can be described as a kind of incomplete conclusion, when a certain thought is affirmed and it is taken into account, but it does not cover the whole picture, but only one aspect.
- An inference is a full-fledged conclusion that is drawn based on all the judgments in a given topic.
Several effective exercises for developing abstract thinking:
- Repeat the sentence in other words - during the task, the meaning and details of the sentence should remain unchanged, but not a single word should be repeated. To achieve maximum efficiency, work on one sentence must be repeated as many times as possible, that is, come up with the maximum number of new phrases that convey the same idea.
- Remove an extra word - from a group of pre-prepared words, one does not fit into the general concept, it needs to be found and removed with reason.
- Find differences between pairs of words - the material is also prepared in advance; words grouped into pairs can be completely different, while during training you need to identify as many differences as possible, some of them are obvious, while others will have to be looked for.
- Words with complex letters - having chosen the least common letters in everyday life, you need to come up with as many words as possible using them.
BrainApps
The service creates an individual training program based on the results of the initial test. The user will have to develop memory, thinking, creativity, logic and attention. The workouts last 5 minutes.
The site contains more than 90 games in which you need to solve anagrams, remember the position of colored cells, find a pair for an object, and so on. But not all of them are available in the free version.
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