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Comment author: James_Miller 03 January 2015 01:23:06AM 10 points [-]

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.

Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 03 January 2015 08:28:03AM *  11 points [-]

In case it is of help to anyone, I wrote a summary of Kaufman's book.

Comment author: robot-dreams 04 January 2015 04:08:52AM 3 points [-]

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.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 05 January 2015 09:20:03AM 1 point [-]

Why is improving lungs useful?

Comment author: James_Miller 05 January 2015 05:48:38PM *  1 point [-]

Building spare capacity in anticipation of losing some lung function to aging.