Re:Ask HN: Do you test your cognition?
by muzani on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @10:12AM
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I don't regularly test for the sake of testing. I regularly train for the sake of improving.
It seems to be an odd question, like asking a professional athlete if she regularly tests her speed and stamina. Most of the people in this forum are professionals who make money off their cognitive ability, and likely regularly improve theirs.
I don't have a perfect methodology for this. But every year, I solve harder problems and puzzles, read books I couldn't digest before, type and do mnemonics a little faster, find out which lanes on the road are faster, smile at more strangers.
It seems to be an odd question, like asking a professional athlete if she regularly tests her speed and stamina. Most of the people in this forum are professionals who make money off their cognitive ability, and likely regularly improve theirs.
I don't have a perfect methodology for this. But every year, I solve harder problems and puzzles, read books I couldn't digest before, type and do mnemonics a little faster, find out which lanes on the road are faster, smile at more strangers.