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What caught my eye in your post is that you have accumulated some useful knowledge from strength training that you just applied elsewhere in your life. Don't y
by tux1968 10y ago
What caught my eye in your post is that you have accumulated some useful knowledge from strength training that you just applied elsewhere in your life. Don't you think it's possible that the exact same could happen to people solving puzzles? I doubt that a scientific study would find that strength training leads to improved problem solving skills, and yet it has for you.
- EliRivers 10y agoI doubt that a scientific study would find that strength training leads to improved problem solving skill Here are some that do. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691814001577 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691814... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26456233 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26456233 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22155655 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22155655
- tux1968 10y agoHeh, well that'll teach me for not being more precise in my wording. Of course your fitness level will have a positive effect on your mental abilities. What i meant to highlight was his use of specific insights _about_ strength training that he then found could be abstracted and applied elsewhere. The same possibility of which he had dismissed in the puzzle solving case.
- Y201K 10y agoI do think that collecting anecdotes from other fields can help you think better in your own field of work. I'm just not so sure that, for example, doing Sudoku makes you any better at thinking about things. Brain training exercises aren't general enough.