Train Your Brain To Boost Your Income
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Printing presses were used in Asia for hundreds of years before Johannes Gutenberg, a professional goldsmith, developed new processes for using typeface and ink to bring printing to the West. Comparable to the invention of writing, or, more recently, the Internet, as a force for change in society, the Gutenberg printing press augured in an age of increasingly widespread literacy and dissemination of knowledge. This trend has gone on unabated ever since, leading to a shift of more and more jobs into the realm of information and information processing.
In the modern workplace, our brain is our most valuable asset. We spend much of our working day using our problem-solving skills and expending considerable mental effort. However with the barrage of information we need to deal with in the form of e-mails, text messages, conference calls, voicemail, etc., we rarely have time to focus on any one thing for very long. Ironically this chronic multi-tasking undermines our ability form memories and stimulate deep learning, making it difficult for us to develop the skills we need to succeed.
As ever, it seems that science will provide the escape route for its own maze. Researchers have shown that even adult brains can grow and change under the right conditions, demonstrating that we can improve our ability to solve problems by employing the right kind of brain training.
Last year a team from the Universities of Michigan and Bern developed a novel training method to progressively improve a person’s visual and aural working-memory, positing that this would produce a transfer gain in fluid intelligence. After only nineteen days the study participants recorded gains in working-memory and fluid intelligence over more than 40% (over and above the scores of those in a control group). The potential impact on our job performance of this kind of cognitive gain is immediately apparent.
Rather than working longer hours or buttering up the boss, we can make ourselves more valuable or more marketable by making ourselves smarter. Generally speaking, jobs that require more intellectual heft provide greater economic reward.
If you want to boost your marketability by boosting your mental agility, it’s very important that you purchase training software that is effective. Not all brain training products achieve these kinds of results. In their study, the university researchers developed a particularly effective working-memory training protocol called “dual n-back.” Dual n-back working memory training delivers the most rigorous and effectice brain training yet developed. (In the interests of full disclosure, and to shorten your search, I should mention that I was so impressed by the research that my company uses the dual n-back method in my its brain training program, Mind Sparke Brain Fitness Pro.)
In a downturn like this with unemployment on the rise and salaries stagnating, it makes sense to increase the value of your most valuable asset. This new training method can help us do just that.
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