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Dual N-back
A Lung improvement machine $11
Sprinting
See The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything . . . Fast! by Josh Kaufman, whom I met at a CFAR workshop.
In case it is of help to anyone, I wrote a summary of Kaufman's book.
Nice recommendations, thanks.
Going from dual 2-back to dual 3-back was pretty hard! I had to (1) completely ignore audio, master 3-back with visuals only, (2) completely ignore visuals, master 3-back with audio only, then (3) try to combine them.
Why is improving lungs useful?
Building spare capacity in anticipation of losing some lung function to aging.