Sunday, July 07, 2013

Measuring your dumbness with a ruler

This video takes advantage of slow motion video to make it look like people are slow and this leads to a good discussion on brain plasticity. There is evidence to suggest it’s just a matter of training our brains, so if we exercise are brains, we can put to rest the old adage that “old dogs can’t learn new tricks”.

I wish all people would keep an open mind about learning new things, but I guess… you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Wait! Wrong saying. It goes to show that your mind is a powerful thing and if you believe you can’t learn anything… then guess what, you won’t.

Click the below image for the video.

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