By Jai Kai

There’s a lot of talk about exercising your body. But what about exercising your brain to keep it healthy? In my last post I talked about how gaming is good for your brain and gave you some examples and techniques on how to create  your own games.

By exercising your brain you are essentially improving your memory and mind capacity. Let me first talk about your memory. You hear and see many things but often you just don’t remember what it is you hear or see.

You hear people say “I have a good memory but it’s short”. That is true. Memory can be short-term or long-term. In short-term memory your mind stores information for a few seconds or a few minutes. For example, the time it takes you to remember the daily specials in a restaurant you were given by your... More...