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Tuesday, 21 July 2015

Today’s Daily Brain Teaser (Jul 22, 2015)

Sea Shells

Gretchen just returned from the beach, and told her brother Henry that she found three interesting types of shells. He asked what they were, and she answered with these rebuses:

LL

LL

AA

CC

SS

1. Nice Naughty Nice Naughty

2. Naughty Nice Naughty Nice

*3. Nice Nice Nice Nice

After thinking for a while, Henry says, “I get the first two types of shells, but didn’t you say you found three?”

“Oops! I almost forgot!” replies Gretchen, as she hits her brother on the head.

“Now I know them all!” he laughs.

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Today’s Daily Trivia Quiz (Jul 22, 2015)

Characters in “Wicked”
“Wicked” is a musical based on the novel “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West”, by Gregory Maguire, which in turn acts as a parallel novel to L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”. Can you answer these questions about the characters in the musical? (Note: The musical version has a slightly different plot than the novel.)

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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Repine

re-pine

verb :: To be discontented or low in spirits; complain or fret.

verb :: To continue pining; to feel inward discontent which preys on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur.

“Bennet still continued to wonder and repine at his returning no more, and though a day seldom passed in which Elizabeth did not account for it clearly, there was little chance of her ever considering it with less perplexity.” –Austen, Jane

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Creativity : Opposite Point of View III

People tend to quickly classify a situation, which causes us to think and respond to it in predictable ways. A creative thinker will think about situations from different angles. Try this exercise to think of these situations from a different point of view.

1. Your favorite pair of jeans just got a hole in them. List five reasons why this is good.

2. You forgot your umbrella at home and now it’s raining. List five reasons why you should be happy about this.

3. You just got a raise at work. List five reasons why you should be disappointed.

4. Your best friend just gave you a surprise birthday party. List five reasons why you should be angry with him or her.

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Memory : Short-Term Memory

The average person’s short-term memory can only hold 7 pieces of information for about 30 seconds. If you want to get something into your long-term memory, you’re going to need to remember it for at least 30 seconds.

This is probably why it’s easy to forget someone’s name moments after hearing it. The name only sticks in your brain for 30 seconds, and unless you do something to push it into your long-term memory, you are going to forget it.

To get more than 7 items at a time into your long-term memory, you can try the Chunking Technique we discussed yesterday. Repetition can also help.

But remember, having a limited short-term memory is a good thing! Imagine how cluttered your mind would be if you remembered every single thing that went into it.