Lumosity Challenge

I started this challenge back in October 2013. After reading this 
This one is really beneficial, but it takes a lot of effort to make it happen.

In synthesis, the challenge is to train with lumosity for an hour, 5 days a week.

It has changed my life in a lot of ways.

Motivation

The motivation to do it came in after reading point 1 of this feel-good lifestyle article.

Is a great way to keep the track and measure a little but your progress, is also a great way to compete with yourself while playing.

The benefits of brain exercise with games can be summarized in this article.

And also in this video:

This other one also can give you a hint of the benefits:

Considerations:

- The pain to be consistent with it.
- Find the right time to do it, hopefully in the morning.

Lumosity

I don't want to publish any marketing or kinda help lumosity to sell, I normally don't pay for games online, but unfortunately Lumosity is the most complete tool there is.They also have a program that helps neuroscientific studies with data and reliable tests. But the benefits you get with it are immense, believe me, so I chose lumosity but you can find other tools if you like. If there is an app better than lumosity for free, please let me know.

How I do the challenge

Basically I get up around 8:30 a.m. and from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. I do the brain training specified by lumosity.

The first days

I sucked, I had a low score in every game, not to mention my flexibiliy part sucked more than the others. After 1 week my LPI improved and started getting better scores. Mildly progressing

The first month

I basically felt that my cognitive skills improved, memory was better, attention and problem solving were faster than before. Together with intermittent fasting my scores were improving and I could challenge myself more.

Now

It's getting harder to beat yourself, I paused this challenge for 1 month to compare results and I felt really bad, like my brain wasn't doing all the activity that normally would. I had to go back, these are my current scores:

 I still need to improve a lot of things, but I feel better when I'm part of the 93% among millions of people.

Benefits

My experience

-Brain performance:

You start feeling that you can think faster and that you can surpass yourself.

- Challenge:

You challenge yourself, that makes you better in every way.

Science: 

- Improve cognitive functions

To further expand this statement, read this article

To quote the study: " breast cancer patients who had undergone chemotherapy showed “significant” improvement in cognitive flexibility, verbal fluency, and processing speed after playing the company’s games four times a week for 12 weeks."

Give it a try, improve, Batman approves.