Get inspired!

  • Monet didn’t paint his famous water lily panels till he was 76.
  • Cezanne kept refining and improving his style all his life, and his most valuable paintings are those painted in the last year of his life.
  • Will Durant won the Pulitzer Prize for History at 83.
  • Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Guggenheim Museum at 90.
  • Dr. Michael DeBakey took out a patent for a surgical innovation at age 90 and continued to consult for NASA till he was 91.
  • Nirad C. Chaudhuri wrote his autobiography at the age of 54; he wrote a sequel to it at the age of 90; and he finished his next and final work at the age of 100!

Bronze Level

  • Watch less television. Instead, read a book or play a social game (cards, Scrabble, etc.).
  • Make an effort to remember people’s names.
  • Try to remember at least a few of the telephone numbers you call most regularly (take them off speed dial).
  • Do something new and different: take a different route to work, expose yourself to new ideas or different cultures.

Silver Level

(In addition to doing tasks at the Bronze level)
  • Do mental arithmetic every day: make calculations at work, or mentally total your grocery bill as you go around the supermarket and see how close you get to the actual total.
  • Play word games.
  • Craft an original, polished, and professionally written document (i.e. not using a template, e-mail or jargon).
  • Play a musical instrument.
  • Pursue art or craft work, especially something that involves counting or following a pattern (i.e. such as knitting, or woodworking).

Gold Level

(In addition to doing tasks at the Bronze and Silver levels) 
  • Play a logic game, like Sudoku, or a numbers game.
  • Play word games, like crosswords, Scrabble, word find, or poetry.
  • Work to improve memory consistently: aim to remember more from each newspaper article you read, or from conversations.
  • Memorize a poem, a recipe, or the roster of your favourite sports team.
  • Learn a language or take an educational course.