by Dan Hunter | Feb 6, 2018 | You Can Only Imagine
Whenever I walked into his Des Moines store, Bill Reichardt, haberdasher, state senator and college football star, would ask “How’s everything in Dan’s world?” A perplexing question. I never lived in an exclusive Dan domain or ever thought that my wellbeing...
by Dan Hunter | Feb 6, 2018 | You Can Only Imagine
Do you need to learn how to see? An absurd question? Anecdotal and confessional evidence suggest that many men cannot see anything in the refrigerator. Or, in their own closets. However, women have their blind spots, too. Human evolution has given us vision that is...
by Dan Hunter | Dec 11, 2017 | You Can Only Imagine
Einstein’s son once asked his father why he was successful. Einstein replied “When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a curved branch, it doesn’t notice that the track it has covered is indeed curved. I was lucky enough to notice what the beetle didn’t...
by Dan Hunter | Dec 5, 2017 | You Can Only Imagine
“You’re no Einstein.” Somewhere, somehow, somebody probably said that to you. Or maybe: “Way to go, Einstein.” Did you ever wonder if you could be Einstein? Of course, you and I weren’t born spouting equations. But, neither was Einstein. (He didn’t speak until he...
by Dan Hunter | Nov 10, 2017 | You Can Only Imagine
There’s no retirement home for this guy. No, he is now over 3000 years old and is still an active superhero. He is the “world’s weirdest action hero,” “the flexible man with the power of steel.” He is Plastic Man. His superpower is flexibility: He can bend, twist,...
by Dan Hunter | Oct 27, 2017 | You Can Only Imagine
“I was lucky enough to notice what the beetle didn’t notice.” Albert Einstein Tucked away in the corner of the Iowa amusement park known as Arnolds Park is a...
by Dan Hunter | Sep 19, 2017 | You Can Only Imagine
Boredom is self-inflicted. My theory was confirmed by reading scholarly articles on boredom: what it is, where it comes from, is it beneficial, or aversive? Whatever. It is what it is. It’s the 21st century. We’re all blasé. Been there, done that. So, I sought...
by Dan Hunter | Aug 25, 2017 | You Can Only Imagine
My grandmother used to climb into the lake in her bathing suit with a ruffled skirt. She would take two or three steps away from the dock and then wait, standing still. Before long, she would shriek—“it bit me”—and dash up the ladder back to the dock. After she...
by Dan Hunter | Aug 16, 2017 | You Can Only Imagine
I like to get to the gym early to flex my neocortex and dash through a few corpus callosum sprints. I preen and watch my cingulate gyrus stretch in the floor-to-ceiling mirrors. Then it’s interval training: hippocampus, occipital lobe, and amygdala—ten reps each. I...
by Dan Hunter | Aug 2, 2017 | You Can Only Imagine
It’s game day… with a twist. Games are everywhere, including websites that purport to “train your brain.” Games are employed in divergent thinking tests to “measure” your creativity. As I have argued in earlier blogs, you can use games to train your brain if you...
