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FIGURE A FIGURE B Perception exercises (those tasks where you must visualize a complex or elaborate scenario "in your head" absolutely arouse and stimulate your creativity and extend and expand expand your imagination . They involve using multiple parts of your brain located in both hemispheres, and often require that you actually close you eyes and either assemble objects, rotate or reposition objects, or visualize a scenario comprise of certain elements. You are literally exercising your imagination; and when you exercise your imagination, you give your brain the equivalent of progressive resistance exercise (the training a bodybuilder or power weightlifter uses for his or body), which strengthens it in every way. Some pundits (or where they gurus?) have speculated that these exercises help increase coordination and communication between all of the different functional parts of your brain. Brothers and sisters of The Braintenance Blog , let's try a few of these now. ...

There are many words which we tend to misspell in our writing. Some are so common that our eyes barely notice them. These are not grammatical or usage mistakes (for example, "Notary Republic," or Mondegreens) -- these just result as a function of how we tend to use the QWERTY -formatted keyboard, how infrequently we read things which have been properly spelled, and our spellcheck-type autocorrect functions: Here's a watchlist of  the top 100 misspelled (or mistyped) words, courtesy of yourdictionary .com [ Warning : This is a LONG post. Please put your scrolling gloves on, Braintenancers - you might even want to pack a lunch ] -- A acceptable - Several words made the list because of the suffix pronounced -êbl but sometimes spelled - ible , sometimes -able. Just remember to accept any table offered to you and you will spell this word OK. accidentally - It is no accident that the test for adverbs on -ly is whether they come from an adjective on -al ("accide...