How to pump up your brain? You will need a pen, a piece of paper and 20 minutes a day. A very simple and universal recipe. Suitable for any age from first grade to infinity. The result has been proven by many experts. This exercise develops the brain well - both hemispheres. Reduces anxiety, treats psychological trauma. Helps with recovery after a stroke and heart attack. Great benefit that does not require much effort. What should you do? Just write by hand. But in the modern flow - a lot of things, little time - gadgets increasingly help us. It turns out to be a "disservice". How is handwriting formed? Why does the brain write, not the hand? Can touch typing replace handwriting? What will a graphological examination tell about a person? How to instill a habit of writing in a child? And why is calligraphy not useful for everyone? We edited a video of EFKO lectures with graphologist Larisa Drygval "Self-development through handwriting". It turned out to be a real neurotraining with homework. Watch and write down! Timestamps: 00:00 Teaser 00:45 Beginning of the lecture 06:23 “Handwriting will give a person away, whether he wants it or not”: about graphology several centuries ago 08:24 How do we write not with our hand, but with our brain? 10:09 What does it mean to “read” a person by handwriting? 11:20 At what age can a graphological analysis of a personality be carried out? 11:50 Writing as brain training 15:38 The time of modern technologies: why should children learn to write by hand? 19:59 Writing skill is a developmental activity 21:53 Restorative practice after stroke, heart attack and brain injury 23:05 Why is it too late to learn to write after 10 years? 26:14 How to teach writing and what does driving a car have to do with it? 28:40 It's a matter of words: writing therapy 30:58 I think, I feel, I act. Self-portrait of our brain and the search for satisfaction from life 35:15 The reptilian brain: graphological analysis 49:41 Emotional intelligence "by hand" 59:42 What does incomprehensible handwriting indicate? 1:01:12 Writing speed - what does it affect? ​​1:02:54 Genetics or habit? 1:04:56 Princess Diana, Maxim Matveyev, Andrei Tarkovsky: psychological MRI based on handwriting 1:08:15 When reason prevails over feelings 1:16:39 Portrait of a person with schizophrenia - in handwriting 1:18:34 "Time management" of graphotherapy 1:23:09 What is beautiful handwriting from a graphologist's point of view? 1:29:37 Questions and answers. Graphological examination of numbers and hieroglyphs 1:32:12 In search of motivation for development 1:37:39 Is it useful to write with the left hand? 1:40:52 Touch typing with both hands or writing - what is more important in the 21st century? 1:43:54 Graphotherapy is not a panacea. What are the difficulties? 1:45:26 Finding yourself in adolescence 1:47:42 Generation gap: then and now 1:51:09 Introvert and calligraphy are incompatible, why? 1:52:14 Handwriting as a tool of social construction 1:55:38 Positive thinking and graphotherapy 1:58:20 Calligraphy: indications and contraindications 1:59:26 How to instill in a child the habit of writing? 2:01:47 Not just scribbles: the meaning of drawings in the margins 2:03:05 A useful exercise to reduce anxiety 2:05:36 Penmanship is a must have in elementary school Telegram channel of graphologist and psychologist Larisa Drygval: https://t.me/grafologia_msk Telegram channel of EFKO executive director Sergey Ivanov: https://t.me/sergei_ivanov_efko