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10 Everyday Ways to Build Your Intellectual Stamina It depends on whom you ask, of course, but some research suggests that puzzles, riddles, and other brainteasers might very well offer a cognitive boost. Memory, an essential cog in the intellectual stamina machine, excels in the more positive-leaning tests, especially those involving patterns. Crossword puzzles, Sudoku, and similar problem-solving activities are thought to help build problem-solving and even creative skills.
Like rest, the brain loves when you decide to give yourself over to absolute distraction and give it a moment to reset itself. Science says this is totally OK. Don’t allow distractions to completely overwhelm a task, of course, but taking a bit of time to revel in them actually makes memorization and intellectual tasks much, much easier to accomplish effectively
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