Comments on: Don’t Outsource Your Brain http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/01/04/dont-outsource-your-brain/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dont-outsource-your-brain Neuroplasticity, Brain Fitness and Cognitive Health News Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:53:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Alvaro http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/01/04/dont-outsource-your-brain/comment-page-1/#comment-128312 Alvaro Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:19:43 +0000 http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/01/04/dont-outsource-your-brain/#comment-128312 Jim, great analogies, and suggestion. Thank you! Would you mind balancing my checkbook too? Jim, great analogies, and suggestion. Thank you!

Would you mind balancing my checkbook too?

]]> By: James http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/01/04/dont-outsource-your-brain/comment-page-1/#comment-128305 James Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:08:26 +0000 http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/01/04/dont-outsource-your-brain/#comment-128305 I have made it a point for many years to manually balance my checkbook, for this very reason. I also think, much like folding physical fitness strategies into everyday life, that we need to do the same for our mental fitness. For instance, I take the stairs and do not take escalators, every day. I also park far away from the store and walk, as well as park on the street and walk several blocks to my residence. Similarly, using our minds to do everyday tasks helps us stay cognitively sharper and fitter. Ancillary technology is helpful, but need not nor should not replace our own abilities, but could enhance and support them when used appropriately. I have made it a point for many years to manually balance my checkbook, for this very reason. I also think, much like folding physical fitness strategies into everyday life, that we need to do the same for our mental fitness. For instance, I take the stairs and do not take escalators, every day. I also park far away from the store and walk, as well as park on the street and walk several blocks to my residence. Similarly, using our minds to do everyday tasks helps us stay cognitively sharper and fitter. Ancillary technology is helpful, but need not nor should not replace our own abilities, but could enhance and support them when used appropriately.

]]> By: Ask Not What the HealthCare System Can Do for You . . . http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/01/04/dont-outsource-your-brain/comment-page-1/#comment-121952 Ask Not What the HealthCare System Can Do for You . . . Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:42:30 +0000 http://www.sharpbrains.com/blog/2008/01/04/dont-outsource-your-brain/#comment-121952 [...] Third, as Alvaro pointed out on a recent Sharp Brains blog, many of us ‘outsource our brains’ and no longer think for ourselves. With mass media messages, GPS systems, calculators, spell checkers and electronic organizers, we must ask the question how well we could function without them. I know I am guilty of this one, myself. [...] […] Third, as Alvaro pointed out on a recent Sharp Brains blog, many of us ‘outsource our brains’ and no longer think for ourselves. With mass media messages, GPS systems, calculators, spell checkers and electronic organizers, we must ask the question how well we could function without them. I know I am guilty of this one, myself. […]

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