THIS EPISODE OF GROWING OLDER LIVING YOUNGER focuses on challenging your brain to keep mentally sharp, with a variety of mindbending puzzles.

Today’s Featured Expert is Scott Kim, a puzzle designer, Innovation coach and educational game designer with a background in music, mathematics, computer science and graphic design. In the puzzle world he focuses on creating original puzzles that challenge and delight every area of the brain, including verbal, spatial, mathematical and visual puzzles, as well as kinesthetic and audio puzzles. He has worked on many puzzle video-games, including Tetris and Bejeweled, created a monthly puzzle column for Discover magazine, and designed physical puzzle toys for ThinkFun. His books including Inversions, a collection of his ambigram lettering art, The Playful Brain, with neuroscientist Richard Restak, Math Dance, with math/dance educator/performers Karl Schaffer and Erik Stern, and The Mind Benders Card Deck. He runs his own company GameThinking.io, which coaches companies around the world in how to test their innovative product ideas before building them. He’s currently writing a book on how to design puzzles.

Episode Timeline 0:11 Intro to today’s episode. 

2:55  Dr. Gill’s puzzle confession

4:46 How Scott began to create puzzles

7:41 Words or numbers

10:27 Scott’s  Brain Game company and Lumosity

14:12 Using the Mindbender Card Deck

22:53 Turning to Crossword puzzles

26:25 Designing puzzles

28:28 Scott’s key takeaway

Learn more about Scott and The Mind Benders Card Deck at these links: Website: gamethinking.io

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/scott-kim/the-mind-benders-card-deck/9781523523191/

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Dr. Gillian Lockitch is an international speaker, author of Growing Older, Living Younger: The Science of Aging Gracefully and The Art of Retiring Comfortably, and host of the Growing Older, Living Younger Podcast. As a dual-certified Specialist in Paediatrics and Medical Biochemistry and Professor at the University of British Columbia, her professional career was rooted in science. During her rehabilitation from life-saving emergency spinal surgery, her passion to be able to dance again led her to explore the intersection of medical and epigenetic science with non-Western healing traditions, to understand how to change aging at the cellular level. Within the Growing Older, Living Younger Project, the Change Your Aging Masterplan cycle is a year-long 3 part coaching program to preserve mind and brain, build your best body, and to survive and thrive in your environment. At 70 Dr. Lockitch became a first time entrepreneur, building a global online business with the premiere wellness and beauty company, to help others extend their healthspan, stay vibrant, active, and independent as they age. Now retired from medical practice, Dr. Lockitch is an empathetic coach and mentor but does not diagnose, treat or prescribe for medical diseases.