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Looks attract, intelligence keeps!

Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by Jenny in Articles, General

Fed up with those unfulfilled New Year resolutions and wasted gym subscriptions? Tired of looking at pictures of celebrities always looking perfect and feeling like a frump in comparison? Well remember this phrase – looks attract but intelligence keeps. Yes, beauty may get you to some places but intelligence can take you all the way to the top and long after celebrities’ looks have faded, you can still be the hottest in terms of intelligence. So relax about exercising those muscles and work out the only one that lasts throughout your life and really make a difference to your achievements.

It could be as simple as learning a new skill or language, developing a useful hobby or more simply, watching a worthwhile DVD or reading a memorable novel. But how do you know which to choose? How do you manage to develop your knowledge without even moving off the sofa? One good solution is in the form of www.cannyminds.com which has a selection of books, DVDS, CDs, and games to stimulate the brain. And lots of interesting articles and useful games to play. A gymnasium for the brain at last.

Just imagine a new form of exercise – no sweating, no breathlessness, yet you’re still improving your capability and developing your potential: It really couldn’t be any better.

Don’t get me wrong; exercise is important but people so easily forget that exercising the mind is just as important if not more so. It’s all very well trying to be beautiful but that is never enough to make any relationship work; friends and partners want to see something behind the eyes. Forgive the cliché, but at the end of the day, it really is what’s inside that counts.

The advantages of extending your intellectual horizons seem endless across your career, friendships and general enjoyment of life. Achieve your potential by making the most of your brain. And this can be one kind of exercise that you can do as a family, in a group with friends or start your children on from an early age. There are a wide variety of games and interactive books  on cannyminds.com which cater for any age. Recreate your own childhood memories with Scrabble and Jenga or do a crossword or IQ test.  Not only will you be promoting an energetic and healthy mind as something more important than an attractive body but you will also be giving your children an important lifelong gift.

Take the first step – change the body beautiful to the brainy beautiful.

Article by Ashleigh Morgan, 15th September 2009

Photo courtesy of Thomas Thomas

Tags: brain training, intelligence