Brain training exercises might just make you better at brain training exercises

Re:Brain training exercises might just make you better at br... by karmakaze on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:11PM (#12662244)

I've had a similar experience where playing Go made be better at living life, and being away from the game and living made me better at Go when I expected to be set back. This probably only applies at kyu levels but I did find it surprising.

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Re:Brain training exercises might just make you better at br... by randall on Friday October 07, 2016 @05:57PM (#12664221)

A completely arbitrary related concept: I'm much better at running my startup now than before I played StarCraft seriously.

StarCraft made me a more strategic thinker and it's why I think it might not surprise people that Emmett Shear (ceo of twitch) is really good at StarCraft.

I played casually in the early days, but a few years back I wanted to get decent enough to play online regularly, and it changed our company for the better.

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Re:Brain training exercises might just make you better at br... by summarite on Sunday October 09, 2016 @06:13PM (#12673833)

Is it your skill at StarCraft, or could it be that you developed strategies for learning, resilience, etc while trying get better, and those are the actual success factors?

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Re:Brain training exercises might just make you better at br... by randall on Thursday October 13, 2016 @12:21AM (#12698390)

Conceptual stretching is my guess. More strategy than normal for me.

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Re:Brain training exercises might just make you better at br... by brianwawok on Friday October 07, 2016 @10:26PM (#12665346)

Do you micro the workers or focus on the macro game?

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Re:Brain training exercises might just make you better at br... by randall on Friday October 07, 2016 @11:39PM (#12665556)

Macro

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Re:Brain training exercises might just make you better at br... by biot on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:20PM (#12662307)

Sounds like Go is the Lisp of board games?

"Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot."

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Re:Brain training exercises might just make you better at br... by Vernetit on Saturday October 08, 2016 @09:24AM (#12666872)

It will be a similar enlightenment experience with Haskell?

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Re:Brain training exercises might just make you better at br... by viewer5 on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:45PM (#12662486)

> playing Go made be better at living life

Would you mind talking about that some more, please?

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Re:Brain training exercises might just make you better at br... by sn9 on Friday October 07, 2016 @05:41PM (#12664122)

If you want to hear something similar from someone who achieved a very high level in chess, I'd highly recommend reading Josh Waitzkin's The Art of Learning.

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