I
felt like writing something today, though I’m not quite sure what I
wanted to talk about. Perhaps at some point I’ll have the reader base to
make requests, though I’m not entirely sure who would want to hear my
opinion on anything. I take that back. Everyone wants to know my stance
on gay marriage and women’s reproductive rights. In the twilight series,
am I team Edward or Jacob? Was Jesus gay??!
So I came across an article the other day regarding those brain-training games, namely Luminosity. I’ve see plenty of commercials for Luminosity in the past. Their claim is the games you play on their website or in their apps help to make you smarter in some way. The games use “neuroscience”, according to the company. To me, that sounds like bullshit. It’s not quite as bad as the newest buzz words you see like “all-natural” and “quantum”. Those words usually mean absolutely nothing in relation to products or self-help advice they provide. Your Lucky Charms are no more “all-natural” than they were twenty years ago. Here’s a quote from Mr. Deepak Chopra, bullshitter extraordinaire:
"Quantum healing is healing the bodymind from a quantum level. That means from a level which is not manifest at a sensory level. Our bodies ultimately are fields of information, intelligence and energy. Quantum healing involves a shift in the fields of energy information, so as to bring about a correction in an idea that has gone wrong. So quantum healing involves healing one mode of consciousness, mind, to bring about changes in another mode of consciousness, body."
What a giant load of shit. What the hell does that even mean? Chopra isn’t the only “quantum” offender, but he’s certainly the largest. Can you believe this asshole has made millions selling this ridiculous and nonsensical advice? Ugh. I hope he gets dick cancer.
Anyway, the reason I decided to write about Lumosity in particular was because off this article I saw last week: LINK. Up until this point I had never thought about Lumosity much. I had seen plenty of commercials and even downloaded the app to see what it was all about. Like most people I had no real reason to question the claims. I think that people in general default to trusting the information that is given to them. Unless that info is highly questionable, we approach things with a “why not?” attitude. I know I do. These brain games help exercise your brain. You’ll get a bit smarter by playing them. The brain is a muscle like anything else. These shoes will help you jump higher, run faster, and thrust more rhythmically!
I suppose I just need to exercise my skeptical chops a bit more. Fortunately I didn’t waste the ten dollars or whatever to buy the app. I only downloaded the free version, and probably only wasted an hour or so of my life on the app over the course of a couple weeks. I guess I feel fortunate in a lot of ways. I know there are way too many people who waste countless hours and hundreds to thousands of dollar on things like this. They waste time and money on vitamin and ginko biloba suppliments. They waste a ton of their lives on crap that doesn’t matter. So if I give up all these things than I’ll have way too much time on my hands. What on earth should I do? I have time and money to waste!!! Well might I suggest taking up kegel exercises? I started doing those a couple years ago. Let me tell you, my stream has never been stronger. Time. Well. Spent.
TL;DR: Brain games? More like suck games!
STL;DR: Deepak Chopra is full of shit.
IHTASOAN;DR: Do your Kegels!
(I realize for a blog of this name, I offer way too few cat pictures. Here’s another. Hopefully this appeases the internet gods.)
So I came across an article the other day regarding those brain-training games, namely Luminosity. I’ve see plenty of commercials for Luminosity in the past. Their claim is the games you play on their website or in their apps help to make you smarter in some way. The games use “neuroscience”, according to the company. To me, that sounds like bullshit. It’s not quite as bad as the newest buzz words you see like “all-natural” and “quantum”. Those words usually mean absolutely nothing in relation to products or self-help advice they provide. Your Lucky Charms are no more “all-natural” than they were twenty years ago. Here’s a quote from Mr. Deepak Chopra, bullshitter extraordinaire:
"Quantum healing is healing the bodymind from a quantum level. That means from a level which is not manifest at a sensory level. Our bodies ultimately are fields of information, intelligence and energy. Quantum healing involves a shift in the fields of energy information, so as to bring about a correction in an idea that has gone wrong. So quantum healing involves healing one mode of consciousness, mind, to bring about changes in another mode of consciousness, body."
What a giant load of shit. What the hell does that even mean? Chopra isn’t the only “quantum” offender, but he’s certainly the largest. Can you believe this asshole has made millions selling this ridiculous and nonsensical advice? Ugh. I hope he gets dick cancer.
Anyway, the reason I decided to write about Lumosity in particular was because off this article I saw last week: LINK. Up until this point I had never thought about Lumosity much. I had seen plenty of commercials and even downloaded the app to see what it was all about. Like most people I had no real reason to question the claims. I think that people in general default to trusting the information that is given to them. Unless that info is highly questionable, we approach things with a “why not?” attitude. I know I do. These brain games help exercise your brain. You’ll get a bit smarter by playing them. The brain is a muscle like anything else. These shoes will help you jump higher, run faster, and thrust more rhythmically!
I suppose I just need to exercise my skeptical chops a bit more. Fortunately I didn’t waste the ten dollars or whatever to buy the app. I only downloaded the free version, and probably only wasted an hour or so of my life on the app over the course of a couple weeks. I guess I feel fortunate in a lot of ways. I know there are way too many people who waste countless hours and hundreds to thousands of dollar on things like this. They waste time and money on vitamin and ginko biloba suppliments. They waste a ton of their lives on crap that doesn’t matter. So if I give up all these things than I’ll have way too much time on my hands. What on earth should I do? I have time and money to waste!!! Well might I suggest taking up kegel exercises? I started doing those a couple years ago. Let me tell you, my stream has never been stronger. Time. Well. Spent.
TL;DR: Brain games? More like suck games!
STL;DR: Deepak Chopra is full of shit.
IHTASOAN;DR: Do your Kegels!
(I realize for a blog of this name, I offer way too few cat pictures. Here’s another. Hopefully this appeases the internet gods.)
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