Comments on: Gentle stroll ‘can help boost intelligence’ http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/09/gentle-stroll-can-boost-intelligence/ The official Derren Brown Blog Mon, 07 May 2012 09:24:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Radu C http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/09/gentle-stroll-can-boost-intelligence/#comment-64231 Radu C Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:23:20 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=13884#comment-64231 Walking makes you smarter? I'd rather say TV dumbs you down. Watching marathons of Eastenders can't be that beneficial to your neuronet. Get the couch potatoes to watch Bloomberg, BBC News, Sky News, BBC Parliament, CNN, etc. and, if their brains don't explode from information overload, see if they get smarter by exposure to this thing called "thought" and this other thing called "wow, I didn't know that, this is so cool!" rather than walking 40 minutes. Get them to take notes and then make them link those notes and try to make sense of everything (and give them an electric shock each time they think they found the holy grail of getting rich quick). Walking makes you smarter? I’d rather say TV dumbs you down. Watching marathons of Eastenders can’t be that beneficial to your neuronet. Get the couch potatoes to watch Bloomberg, BBC News, Sky News, BBC Parliament, CNN, etc. and, if their brains don’t explode from information overload, see if they get smarter by exposure to this thing called “thought” and this other thing called “wow, I didn’t know that, this is so cool!” rather than walking 40 minutes. Get them to take notes and then make them link those notes and try to make sense of everything (and give them an electric shock each time they think they found the holy grail of getting rich quick).

]]> By: rogibson http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/09/gentle-stroll-can-boost-intelligence/#comment-64023 rogibson Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:24:58 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=13884#comment-64023 If only I could get off this bleeding computer! If only I could get off this bleeding computer!

]]> By: John P Morgan http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/09/gentle-stroll-can-boost-intelligence/#comment-64016 John P Morgan Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:54:10 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=13884#comment-64016 Or the exercise made them less lazy and so they did more mentally productive tasks. Or the exercise made them less lazy and so they did more mentally productive tasks.

]]> By: Carol Bradshaw http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/09/gentle-stroll-can-boost-intelligence/#comment-64012 Carol Bradshaw Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:34:34 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=13884#comment-64012 I started to walk for 40mins, 5-6 times a week and I do actually feel better all-round for it, but not only in fitness terms. My brain also feels more 'awake', if that makes any sense, more acute. As well as the connectivity aspect, I think it would encourage the release of certain chemicals in the brain that would perhaps lighten the mood and in turn free your brain from negative thought allowing you to think more about matters in hand. I started to walk for 40mins, 5-6 times a week and I do actually feel better all-round for it, but not only in fitness terms. My brain also feels more ‘awake’, if that makes any sense, more acute. As well as the connectivity aspect, I think it would encourage the release of certain chemicals in the brain that would perhaps lighten the mood and in turn free your brain from negative thought allowing you to think more about matters in hand.

]]> By: M:E http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/09/gentle-stroll-can-boost-intelligence/#comment-64010 M:E Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:19:22 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=13884#comment-64010 I'm sure it has nothing to do with the stimulation in change of scenery and enforcing near daily information gathering. Gotta be the exercise itself... I’m sure it has nothing to do with the stimulation in change of scenery and enforcing near daily information gathering.
Gotta be the exercise itself…

]]> By: Jeff http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/09/gentle-stroll-can-boost-intelligence/#comment-64009 Jeff Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:18:34 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=13884#comment-64009 So why is this article accompanied by a photo of someone *running*? So why is this article accompanied by a photo of someone *running*?

]]> By: lisa http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/2010/09/gentle-stroll-can-boost-intelligence/#comment-64007 lisa Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:05:36 +0000 http://derrenbrown.co.uk/blog/?p=13884#comment-64007 Tempting to assume that it's due to the "switching off" effect of going for a walk (or doing some other aerobic exercise without your ipod) which stimulates the consolidation of recent inputs into permanent links or memories in your brain, rather than the exercise itself. You know, correlation != causation :) Tempting to assume that it’s due to the “switching off” effect of going for a walk (or doing some other aerobic exercise without your ipod) which stimulates the consolidation of recent inputs into permanent links or memories in your brain, rather than the exercise itself.

You know, correlation != causation :)

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