Mental Workout

In my former job, I was an HR trainer for new and rehires. I would create brainteasers each Wednesday for my class to see where they were in what they had been taught since it was mid week. I wanted to make sure they were reading over the material I'd given them earlier in the week since the job required detail etiquette in whom personnel spoke with conducting the health research data. These brainteasers were looked upon by higher ups at the job as instrumental ways to perfect personnel in ensuring they completely understood their job responsibilities in speaking respondents. They exercised the mind and became a "hit" at work so much, I was asked to create more of them to use on training Tuesday - which was what all personnel had to go through.

There are many ways in which to exercise our minds and give ourselves a mental workout. Puzzles, games, studying are just a few of the ways we can enrich ourselves through enhancing our knowledge. We can react to such benefits in what our findings - from paying close attention to elements surrounding us, to participating in stimulating conversations. Often I like speaking with people of whom I have no commonalities just to have an open mind in what they may do for a living or what they study or how they live. That is why as an IT major, I like taking elective courses outside that field to become acquainted with others who are in the health related field and discuss topics that are out of the normal range than what is discussed within my IT course.

Mental workouts broaden our range of thinking and help to stimulate our well being in a sense in which we can identify with ourselves and life itself and us and how we live in it. Whether it be through education or communication or both, various forms of mental workouts can give us a chance to experience many different things in many different ways and provides us with a means of understanding more that what we may have allowed ourselves to.