Refresh your mind with these simple exercises. Preserve your WPM!
Difficulty: 2/5
TIME
It should only take 1-2 minutes, but do it often!
Participants
Individual
Core Competency Connection
MATERIALS
- Your hands
- A few quick seconds
PREP
N/A
The Process
Step 1: Questions Anyone?
- Lift your right hand.
Step 2: One and two and three…
- Touch your index finger to your thumb.
- Now, switch fingers and touch your middle finger to your thumb, then your ring finger to your thumb.
- Stop with your pinkie finger and thumb connected.
Step 3: …And switch!
- Lower your right hand.
- Lift your left hand.
Step 4: And again!
- Touch your index finger to your thumb, then middle finger to thumb, then ring finger to thumb.
- Stop with your pinkie finger and thumb connected.
Step 5: Hands Up!
- Lower your left hand.
- Raise both hands.
Step 6: One more time.
- Touch your index finger to your thumb, then middle finger to thumb, then ring finger to thumb.
- Stop with your pinkie finger and thumb connected. Lower your hands.
Step 7: Feel refreshed?
- Repeat a few times until your mind feels more focused and clearer.
Design Hack
It takes practice – I would practice it myself until I could do it fairly well before demonstrating for students.
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