Saturday, June 17, 2006

How to Drain your Brain

  • Avoid getting sleep at all costs. Studies have shown that significant sleep deficit results in mental impairment similar to intoxication along with a decline in motor skills.
  • Eat a lot of junk food with high fat and sugar content, and avoid fruits, vegetables, fish, and other "brain" foods.
  • Never Exercise, otherwise you will experience the benefits of better blood flow to the brain along with improved Neuronal metabolism.
  • Don't try and learn a new skill or challenge yourself in anyway, or you might stimulate the growth of new neural connections.
  • Avoid difficult games, problems, and puzzles - that way your I.Q. will stay the same or decline over time.
  • Accept the status quo at work and in life to keep the creative side of your brain dormant.
  • Abuse drugs, alcohol, or other substances to keep your brain cells suppressed, and eventually damage them permanently.
  • Let your emotions run wild - especially anger. Such highly charged states are not conducive to good mental function.
  • Never look for more than one solution to a problem - that way you won't have to engage too many neurons in the task at hand.
  • If you follow this advice you will experience the down side of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) - something smart people say when they are over thinking a problem, except in your case you will actually be stupid and simple :-).


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    5 comments:

    Anonymous said...

    Um --

    *multi-multi task, you burn out the neurons, disconnect them and connect them to the wrong thing.

    *get involved in lists that go on for days.

    *finally, follow our advice.

    Anonymous said...

    Don't think I'll be draining mine anytime soon. My brain, I mean... ;)

    ~m

    Beau said...

    Blueturtle makes a good point about multi-tasking too much, but I think a busy brain is better if you can remain calm and relatively stress free as you think. Michaelm is usually able to find a humorous slant to a topic, and his blog is well worth checking out.

    Beau said...

    Although there is merit in not following the advice in this post, I wouldn't want to leave anyone with the impression that I haven't been guilty of the "sins" mentioned there. I wanted the post to be somewhat satirical and hopefully humorous.

    Anonymous said...

    Thanks for the link, Beau!

    ~Michael