Seven Quick Riddles to Exercise Your Working Memory and Attention

  “What’s so delicate that just saying its name breaks it?” Riddles are mental challenges that challenge your ingenuity and, in turn, surprise you with their simplicity. They’re resources that activate multiple cognitive processes, the kinds that you often don’t use as much as you should. Life isn’t a puzzle to be solved, but a path along which you let yourself go, acting almost on automatic pilot. However, this could be the biggest problem of all. That’s because, as a human being, you need to be agile in aspects such as your attention, critical thinking, memory, and creativity. This is…