1) The document discusses various ways to increase intelligence through balancing physical, emotional, and cognitive abilities. It emphasizes practicing skills that use the whole body and mind simultaneously, like brain body exercises. 2) Attention has three types - undirected, directed, and mindfulness - and strengthening each type can accelerate response abilities. Practices like meditation, juggling, and team-based activities were recommended. 3) Holistic intelligence relies on developing a both/and balance across multiple levels and continuing practices over the long-term to see non-linear benefits. The key is using all our abilities to identify and act on opportunities.

1. Mastering The Brain
Increasing Intelligence

2. - A little on the Brain
- What is intelligence?
- Opportunities & Abilities
- Attention
-Modern life & the brain
- Increasing intelligence
The Near Future

3. “Un-schooled”
Juggling, math, (abstract guy)
Knee surgery,
Positive Psychology,
brain research
David Wolovsky

4. Name?
What brought you here?
About You

5. Questions?
(Questions = Curiosity x Courage)

6. The Brain

7. Under A Microscope
● 100 billion neurons
● Average of 1000
connections each
● Complex networks,
constantly updating
Source: Quasar Jarosz at en.wikipedia

8. Mapping the
Connections
Gray matter, eh.
White matter, hmm!

9. What Is Intelligence?

10. What Is Intelligence?
Berlin Model of Intelligence Structure -
3 types: Figural, verbal, numerical
4 qualities: processing speed, creativity,
processing capacity, and...the 4th?

11. What Is Intelligence?
Q: Is there an agreed on definition of intelligence?
[Neurologist Fred] Lepore: There are multiple "intelligences" such as spatial,
linguistic, logical-mathematical, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal,
intrapersonal, and naturalistic. (Howard Gardner, 1983.) I like James Flynn's
definition, which points at "mental abilities that allow us to better deal with the
complexity of the modern world."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/lepore-intelligence.html

12. My Current Definition
Intelligence
The ability to identify and act on
opportunities in a specific situation.

13. Intelligence Is A Relationship
between a living thing
and the situation in which it finds itself.

14. Intelligence Is A Relationship
between a living thing
and the situation in which it finds itself.

15. A combination of an opportunity and
our ability to take that opportunity

16. - If I’m a good swimmer, then I can swim
when there’s water around me
- If I am good at leading people, then I can lead people
when there are people with me
- If I’m an electrical engineer, then I can make gadgets
when electrical components are in my hands
Opportunities Are Real

17. Without Opportunity...
Can’t swim anywhere
Can’t lead anybody
Can’t make any gadgets

18. - Can be immediate,
intermediate, or long
term
- Can reveal
themselves, then
disappear
unexpectedly
Opportunities

19. Identifying Opportunities
How do we predict them the farthest
ahead of time?
Pregnant moments. Signals.

20. Identifying Opportunities
Mindfulness is the act of absorbing more
information about the present moment.
It’s a muscle/skill. We can build it.

21. Example of Mindfulness
Listening to everything
that comes into awareness.
Watching awareness as it shifts.
(1-2 minutes)

22. Questions?
(Questions = Curiosity x Courage)

23. So There Are Opportunities
Which we meet with...

24. Body Mind
Emotions
Skills on 3 Levels

25. Balance: Both/And
Body
Mobile_________________________________________Stable
Emotions
Fluid____________________________________________Fixed
Mind
Divergent________________________________Convergent

26. Physical Intelligence
Body
Mobile_________________________________________Stable

27. Balance
Physical intelligence: balance between mobility
and stability

28. Stretch Break
MMMobility!

29. Emotional Intelligence
Emotions
Fluid____________________________________________Fixed

30. Balance
Emotional intelligence: balance between fluidity
and fixedness

31. Problem Solving Steps
Mind
Divergent________________________________Convergent

32. Balance, Again
Cognitive intelligence: balance between
divergent (creative) thinking and convergent
(analytical) thinking

33. A Video
Divergent________________________________Convergent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMPuujald
Zk

34. Maximum Intelligence
Access to the most opportunities:
3 balanced levels, plus ability to shift between and
blend them together as opportunities dictate

35. Attention Acceleration

36. Attention’s 3 Types
Undirected (DMN)
Directed (FP Control)
Directed x Undirected???

37. Attention’s 3 Types
Undirected (DMN)
Directed (FP Control)
Mindfulness: observing
attention as it shifts naturally

38. How is each one essential
for accelerating our response abilities?
How can we strengthen them?
Attention’s 3 Types

39. To Summarize (so far)

40. Questions?
(Questions = Curiosity x Courage)

41. We used our whole selves for almost everything.
This is what our brains evolved for.
50,000 Years Ago

42. What Are They Doing?

43. What are we doing?
With our bodies?
With our social interactions & emotions?
With our thinking patterns?
With our attention?
Modern Culture

44. Modern Culture
?

45. My Question
?
How
can
we

46. How can we make ourselves
more holistically intelligent?
In Words

47. 1) What increases our sensitivity
to real-life opportunities?
1) What increases our physical, emotional, and
cognitive abilities in a both/and way?
2) What increases all 3 types of attention?
In Other Words

48. Memory, attention, emotions...
Some Evidence From Science

49. Rhythm
Some Evidence From Science
School!

50. Balance (emotions, memory, mental imagery)
Some Evidence From Science

51. Word games, Languages (verbal thinking)
Some Evidence From Science

52. Mental math, fine motor skills (spatial thinking)
Some Evidence From Science

53. Exercise (emotional regulation, even 2 minutes)
Some Evidence From Science

54. Some Answers From Science
Mindfulness and
Meditation
Juggling and other
complex motor skills
Teamwork-based
activities
Mental games
(3D chess)

55. - Brain Body exercises
- Mindfulness and Meditation
- Stretching
- Yoga and weight lifting
- Journaling / note taking
Some of My Practices

56. Let’s Do An Example/s!
Please stand up (if you’re comfortable)
Take a ball or 2
Follow along

57. Brain Body Exercises
3 components:

58. Brain Body Exercises
Legs Hands Mind
Level of
Complexity
Highly integrated Brain Body Exercise

59. Brain Body Exercise
Uses a lot of attention,
integrating all 3 ability levels
simultaneously.

60. Compare
Legs Hands Mind
Level of
Complexity
Activities on the computer

61. Compare
Legs Hands Mind
Level of
Complexity
Playing soccer as a midfielder

62. Questions?
(Questions = Curiosity x Courage)

63. Now The Hard Part
How long do you think it takes to increase
intelligence?

64. Many people try to take up practices to improve
their lives, but they don’t continue.
Why?
Continuing Practice

65. - Long-term practices bestow benefits non-
linearly (slow/jumpy)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N883zEr
n5UQ
Emotional Intelligence

66. Intelligence = Ability to identify and act on
opportunities in a given situation
Key Definition

67. Both/And Balance
Body Mind
Emotions
Flexibility and Strength

69. Attention: 3 types. Practice all.
Key Concepts

70. As humans:
We are each whole
And made up of many parts
Bottom Line

71. “We have all that we need
And we need to use all that we have.”
- Emiliya Zhivotovskaya
Bottom Line

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