Daily Practices for Optimal Cognitive Performance

Lumosity, a well respected maker of brain training tools and games, recently shared the results of a massive (750,000 person) survey.  They looked for specific daily practices that support optimal cognitive performance.

Here is what they found:

  • 7 hours of sleep is much better than 5 or 10 especially when combined with the other practices.
  • Exercise is key but your don’t need much.  Cognitive performance peaks at about 2-3 workouts per week.
  • Read at least 10 minutes everyday.
  • Have 1-2 alcoholic drinks per day. Definitely avoid 3 or more.
  • Play a musical instrument at least once per week.

Following these practices should improve memory and speed of mental processing.

Rarely do you see such specific advice on duration and quantity.  Lumosity is able to get so specific when others are not because they have some 20 million registered users.

I am interested to hear from readers that decide to try this out.