I took one of those Luminosity quizzes. One of those brain training games. The first step (before signing up) is to take a couple of tests to establish your baseline mental capacity. I am approaching my mid-thrity's and I'm thinking the old brain could use some challenging. My day to day job leads me to be creative and interact with incredible people, but getting out of that comfort zone couldn't hurt.
So I take the tests. They seem fun enough. Deciphering patterns, directing trains to their stations in a maze of tracks, adding up numbers floating in the air....seemed like different tasks my brain doesn't tackle on a daily basis.
The test is completed and I submit my results.........my brain is more productive than 3% of others who have taken the test. THREE percent. THREE. Bottom three percent. As in 97% of people who took that test are more intelligent than I. I am shocked that I am able to type the results were so low. How can I possibly get my coffee to my mouth in the morning with results that low. How did I take Honors English in high school? Graduate with a college degree? Obtain a job that eventually led me to manage nearly a BILLION dollars in assets? Write a book? HOW DID THESE THINGS HAPPEN????? According to Luminosity I should be working on an Amish farm.....as a mule.
Three percent? For a moment I was worried that I had taken too many hits to the head when I.....well, I never really competed in too many contact sports as a kid. Golf could be competitive but we never took to swinging clubs at one another. Suppose I did box a bit, but never 12 rounds with Iron Mike. So what led to this low, perhaps deceptively so, score?
To start, I hadn't yet purchased the program. I am assuming if I had read that I was smarter than every human to ever take the test I would probably say, no need to waste my time here. But a test score that rates me as near drooling and catatonic well then......I clearly am in the need of some Luminosity. Is the test a scam? Am I a bad test taker? Should I be taken to a "big farm in the country"? Do I need to read more and listen to less Podcasts? (probably)
$12 for a month long subscription. I think I will give it a shot. At 3% it can't hurt.
So I take the tests. They seem fun enough. Deciphering patterns, directing trains to their stations in a maze of tracks, adding up numbers floating in the air....seemed like different tasks my brain doesn't tackle on a daily basis.
The test is completed and I submit my results.........my brain is more productive than 3% of others who have taken the test. THREE percent. THREE. Bottom three percent. As in 97% of people who took that test are more intelligent than I. I am shocked that I am able to type the results were so low. How can I possibly get my coffee to my mouth in the morning with results that low. How did I take Honors English in high school? Graduate with a college degree? Obtain a job that eventually led me to manage nearly a BILLION dollars in assets? Write a book? HOW DID THESE THINGS HAPPEN????? According to Luminosity I should be working on an Amish farm.....as a mule.
Three percent? For a moment I was worried that I had taken too many hits to the head when I.....well, I never really competed in too many contact sports as a kid. Golf could be competitive but we never took to swinging clubs at one another. Suppose I did box a bit, but never 12 rounds with Iron Mike. So what led to this low, perhaps deceptively so, score?
To start, I hadn't yet purchased the program. I am assuming if I had read that I was smarter than every human to ever take the test I would probably say, no need to waste my time here. But a test score that rates me as near drooling and catatonic well then......I clearly am in the need of some Luminosity. Is the test a scam? Am I a bad test taker? Should I be taken to a "big farm in the country"? Do I need to read more and listen to less Podcasts? (probably)
$12 for a month long subscription. I think I will give it a shot. At 3% it can't hurt.
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