I was not one of those college students who could breeze through every academic challenge without studying. In fact, I found that I had to fight tooth and nail for every notch of my grade point average. I assumed that this was because I was a public school kid from a relatively intellectual family, and one who had always been able to do very well with minimal effort just by playing to my natural strengths. For me, college was, from beginning to end, an academic war.

Although many years had passed (with only the occasional classic post-graduate nightmare!), when I played the Dakim BrainFitness System for the first time, I was very nervous. In the back of my head I had a list of my cognitive strengths and weaknesses. For example, I have always known I was Numbers Girl–I like numbers, and they like me. No problem there. But I had always stumbled on the verbal.

Now, I come from a very verbal family, and although by nature I was not the most talkative in my family, I valued language and always believed that I should have no trouble reading or listening to lectures. In practice, however, that had never really been the case. Ultimately, I pretty much gave up trying to figure out how that could be.

Even with all that baggage, however, after a few brain fitness sessions, I started to calm down. I think it was because the variety of exercises in the program was helping me, 30 years out of school, to confirm my cognitive strengths, work on my cognitive weakness, and, most surprisingly, discover some essential cognitive skills I didn’t even know I had.

It was the visuospatial and visual memory games in Dakim BrainFitness, such as Shifting Positions, My Favorite Things, Picture Pairs, and Make a Story, that showed me the rest of my cognitive skills. Through presenting images/photos to remember or calling on me to remember verbal information by imagining it as a picture, I soon started to feel I could be learn new information far more easily than I had in the past.

And like so many super heroes before her, Numbers Girl was awakened to a whole new super power–in this case, thanks to a brain fitness program!