Physical Intelligence - Day 69

The video above details creating cognitive flexibility in relationship to movement, which the author describes as fluid intelligence.  Rather than bemoan the negative of task switching, the study was focused on complex movements and examined this switching to heighten the mind.

The author does provide caveat's about replication of certain studies but this work which is emerging in Germany is based on cognitive relationships to learning NEW movements.  The weird thing about this video is that just when it feels like it has ended, a new section begins.

From anecdotal evidence I have seen kids who were not getting good grades deciding that they would divert their attention to physical sports.  It would appear that less time spent on studying and more on athletics would be antithetical to better grades, but in many cases I saw these kids jump in their grades as they expended energy in getting fitter.

I then learned that one way teachers have found ways of getting ADHD kids to focus was to send them to physical exercise before they began their schooling.  The logic here makes sense because the reason these kids cannot focus is that they are bubbling with energy that creates distraction - but having physically spent this energy,  it is like burning away excess energy and the fitness in itself is helping the brain.  We all can deduce that exercise will help the brain but few of us follow through - so exposure to this thought is probably more important than knowing that we know this.  We know a lot of things that we do not do.  The final step here is timing of this exercise and that too is something that makes absolute sense to me, but here I am in Day 69 and the vast majority of attitude to exercise has been a procrastination response,  not a motivation to exercise in the morning :

and if eating our frog is not enough for me to reinforce the connection between exercise and a better brain, I can always add one more video - again, watching it does not tell us what we do not already intuitively do.  We spend more time focused on how we brand ourselves rather than connect physical action with marketing exposure.  This means we are subject to images which lead us to respond accordingly but this continues to be superficial - whereas viewing exercise as the natural but drug of choice, this video highlights this relationship, so we can sell exercise better, rather than promote cosmetics and airbrushed pictures of what looks like health.