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Our mind can be trained by employing the principle of
overwhelm. Neurologically this is called "use dependent plasticity". The most
common experience is highway driving. After driving at highway speed for a while
(say an hour or two) we will find that it is almost hard to drive at city speed.
It is because once our brain get used to have information coming at a fast pace,
it is actually hard to slow down!
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2003 July 7 - Abacus match in Toronto! |
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Our mind can be trained by employing the principle of
overwhelm. Neurologically this is called "use dependent plasticity". The most
common experience is highway driving. After driving at highway speed for a while
(say an hour or two) we will find that it is almost hard to drive at city speed.
It is because once our brain get used to have information coming at a fast pace,
it is actually hard to slow down!
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Do
you know:
- 80% of the world's people have a more developed left brain.
- Traditional abacus have 2
fives and 5 ones on each column because old Chinese unit of measure
for weight is 16 based.
- Modern abacus have 1 five and
4 ones on each column because of 10 based
calculation.
- Dr. Roger Sperry of the California Institute of Technology won a Nobel Prize for his work on the functions of the brain's hemispheres.
- The right brain has a "high-speed, high-capacity memory" mechanism.
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