The One Where We Watch Brain Games

Today, we watched Brain Games together. It was fascinating.

We learned a few things:

• Dark chocolate helps reduce stress.

• Chewing come helps reduce stress.

• Giving information to your brain quickly puts it into a mode that helps shut down short term memory to cope.

• Positive reinforcement can help people complete stressful task 80 percent of the time when playing the game Perfection (vs. negative reinforcement, which allowed a 20 percent success rate).