Mental gymnastics for a winning brain. Exercise number 15: “Breakdown sentences”

La ability to organize aunt information and give him a sense accomplished is one of the prerogatives of the human being. Being sentient beings, we feel the need to find the meaning of what we do. Furthermore, our brain suffers when it is faced with a series of broken down and disjointed information, and it immediately feels the need to make sense of it. 

We are even able to make sense of the shapes of the clouds: how many times do we happen to see a face or the silhouette of an animal in a cloud? This phenomenon is called pareidolia. All this to say how the mind needs to fully organize confusing information.

The purpose of the exercise we propose today is to strengthen the ability to organize e find out un meaning in a set of words thrown into disarray.

For more information: video course “the secrets for an efficient brain” by prof. Giuseppe Alfredo Iannoccari.

We are at the fifteenth episode of “Mental Gymnastics” column for a "winning brain", the result of the collaboration of FIRST online Professor Giuseppe Alfredo Iannoccari, neuropsychologist, professor at the State University of Milan and president of Assomensana, the association for the development and enhancement of mental activities. Every Sunday A stimulating mental gymnastics exercise is proposed on FIRSTonline a mental ability different. In the banner on the right on our home page all the exercises already published are grouped together, which have stimulated a different ability of our brain each time.

Let's remember the basic rules

For each exercise you will be shown:

• which cognitive functions it stimulates
• what purpose does it serve in everyday life
• delivery to carry out the exercise
• how long should the execution time be?
• how to calculate the score
• the finish line for an optimal score
• how to make it more empowering
• which variations to adopt to continue doing so

Mental gymnastics exercise number 15: “Breakdown sentences”

This week we propose the "Breakdown sentences" exercise for the column the winning brain that develops and strengthens:

• concentration
• language
• • innovative business organization based on the use of technologies and digitalization of internal and external processes, as well as the active and continued promotion of the services we offer through business development, marketing and communication systems (letter "I" of our logo actually stands for "Innovation");

How it takes place

Delivery: Rearrange the letters to obtain a meaningful sentence. 

Example: HOT – FA – SEA – AL = IT IS HOT AT THE SEA.

I – FINDING – OFFENDED – TEMPTING – UNCLES –

WHILE – WERE – WERE – ARE – 10 – COMPANIES – 

Execution time: 150 seconds.

Score: 10 points for each word placed correctly. 

Traguardo: Score at least 100 points in the given time.

Strengthening: complete the task in 120 seconds.

variants

Build a sentence with 10 words. The words must be of increasing length, so start from the first word of a letter to get to the last word of ten letters (like the exercise proposed today 😉 ) 

Call: write in the comments the sentence you constructed with the 10 words 😊