Mind & Body is an activity that can give small bursts of health and smarts to increase your Stats and can even help raise Karma. In addition, they may be a little more happy as a result of self-care. Mind and Body was a standard default top fave go-to activity, until an update allowed players to choose which activities should go on the top for their own games. In most locations, characters need to be at least 12-13 for meditating or library or 16 to work out at the gym or to take a memory test. Later it was changed to 12 for all 4: meditating, library, gym, and memory test. This can be done in Prison and juvenile detention (except for a memory test) with gym being free. There was an update which added 5 more Mind and Body activities: Reading books, Going on a Diet, Gardening, Martial Arts, and Walks.
Mind & Body Activities[]
Books - The player can choose a book for their character and tap the screen to read the pages. This can improve Smarts for the character and say how much they enjoyed the book. If a character does not want to finish a book, they may abandon it or find a different book. All books are based from real-life books. Children may only read children's books. An achievement can be unlocked for reading the entire dictionary. Unlike the Library, reading multiple individual books in one year can improve smarts every time rather than just once a year.
List of Books, Authors, Genres, and Pages, etc.
Book
Author
Genre
Pages
Age Unlocked
Effects
#IMomSoHard
Kristin Hensley
Comedy
272
17
Happiness +16
Smarts +4
1984
George Orwell
Science Fiction
237
17
A Brief History of Time
Stephen Hawking
Non-Fiction
256
17
A Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin
Fantasy
694
18
Happiness +16
Smarts +4
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
Fantasy
239
10
Happiness +100
Smarts +50
All My Friends Are Dead
Avery Monsen
Comedy
96
17
Happiness +16
Smarts +4
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
Historical Fiction
296
17
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
Autobiography
378
15
Happiness -8
Smarts +16
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Historical Fiction
489
17
A Time to Kill
John Grisham
Novel
546
17
Happiness +4
Smarts +4
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Novel
1168
17
Happiness +8
Smarts +100
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Betty Smith
Novel
493
13
Happiness +16
Smarts +16
Awaken the Giant Within
Tony Robbins
Self-Help
548
15
Happiness +50
Smarts +50
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
Fantasy
260
10
Beauty Fades, Dumb is Forever
Judy Sheindlin
Comedy
190
19
Happiness +16
Smarts +4
Becoming
Michelle Obama
Autobiography
463
15
Happiness +16
Smarts +50
Beloved
Toni Morrison
Historical Fiction
345
16
Happiness -8
Smarts +50
Bossypants
Tina Fey
Autobiography
196
19
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Science Fiction
288
17
Happiness -4
Smarts +50
Broke Millennial Takes On Investing
Erin Lowry
Self-Help
258
17
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?
Bill Martin Jr.
Children's Picture Book
32
6
Happiness +16
Smarts +16
Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets
Dav Pilkey
Children's Novel
133
7
Happiness +4
Smarts +4
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Novel
452
16
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald Dahl
Children's Novel
178
7
Charlotte's Web
E.B. White
Children's Novel
196
8
Cookin' with Coolie
Coolio
Cookbook
224
17
Corduroy
Don Freeman
Children's Picture Book
32
6
Happiness +30
Smarts +16
Cosmos
Carl Sagan
Non-Fiction
365
17
Happiness +8
Smarts +50
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime Fiction
671
19
Happiness -4
Smarts +50
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
Non-Fiction
856
17
Dad is Fat
Jim Gaffigan
Comedy
288
17
Happiness +16
Smarts +4
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Jeff Kinney
Children's Novel
221
10
Happiness +50
Smarts +4
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Novel
1023
17
Dracula
Bram Stoker
Horror Novel
488
13
Everything I Know About Women I Learned From My Tractor
Roger Welsch
Comedy
224
19
Happiness +16
Smarts -4
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Science Fiction
194
16
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
Novel
217
19
Fifty Shades of Grey
E.L. James
Romance Novel
514
19
Happiness +50
Smarts -4
First Step 2 Forever
Justin Bieber
Biography
240
15
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes
Science Fiction
311
16
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Horror Novel
335
13
Freedom in Exile
Dalai Lama
Autobiography
304
15
Gone with the Wind
Margaret Mitchell
Historical Fiction
1037
17
Goodnight Moon
Margaret Wise Brown
Children's Picture Book
32
6
Goosebumps
R.L. Stine
Children's Novel
122
9
Happiness +16
Smarts +4
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
Tragedy
289
19
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J.K. Rowling
Fantasy
309
9
Hatchet
Gary Paulsen
Young Adult Novel
195
13
Happiness +16
Smarts +16
Heart Of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
Novel
188
19
Holes
Louis Sachar
Young Adult Novel
251
11
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Self-Help
291
15
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Laura Numeroff
Children's Picture Book
32
6
Happiness +16
Smarts +30
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou
Autobiography
305
14
Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice
Horror Novel
353
19
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Novel
581
17
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov
Science Fiction
253
15
Happiness +8
Smarts +8
It
Stephen King
Horror Novel
1138
15
Happiness +4
Smarts +4
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
Romance Novel
532
15
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
Science Fiction
400
15
Kama Sutra
Vātsyāyana
Self-Help
576
19
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
Historical Fiction
141
16
Happiness -4
Smarts +16
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
Novel
354
15
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
Novel
449
11
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Novel
331
19
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
Autobiography
684
16
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Young Adult Novel
182
14
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Novel
329
17
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
Novel
654
15
My Horizontal Life
Chelsea Handler
Autobiography
213
19
Happiness +16
Smarts -4
Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Novel
296
19
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
Novel
187
16
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey
Novel
325
19
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Fantasy
417
17
On The Origins of Species
Charles Darwin
Non-Fiction
502
17
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
Novel
320
17
Patriot Games
Tom Clancy
Crime Fiction
540
17
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Romance Novel
279
14
Ramona Quimby Age 8
Beverly Clery
Children's Novel
192
9
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
Science Fiction
386
13
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Robert Kiyosaki
Self-Help
196
15
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley
Novel
704
17
Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Mystery
1059
13
Shogun
James Clavell
Science Fiction
1152
19
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Novel
152
16
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Science Fiction
275
17
Happiness -4
Smarts +30
Stellaluna
Janell Cannon
Children's Picture Book
48
6
Happiness +30
Smarts +16
Strong Looks Better Naked
Khloé Kardashian
Biography
245
17
Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing
Judy Blume
Children's Novel
130
11
Happiness +16
Smarts +8
Teach Your Wife to be a Widow
Donald Rogers
Self-Help
93
17
Happiness -4
Smarts -4
The 4-Hour Workweek
Tim Ferris's
Self-Help
322
19
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Stephen R. Covey
Self-Help
420
15
Happiness +16
Smarts +50
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Young Adult Novel
327
14
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
Novel
179
17
Happiness +4
Smarts +50
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
Non-Fiction
25
17
The Baby-Sitters Club
Ann Martin
Young Adult Novel
147
9
Happiness +16
Smarts +4
The Bedwetter:Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
Sarah Silverman
Comedy
240
19
Happiness +16
Smarts +4
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
Historical Fiction
584
12
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Poetry
504
19
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Novel
277
15
The Cat in the Hat
Dr. Seuss
Children's Picture Book
73
6
Happiness +16
Smarts +4
The Celestine Prophecy
James Redfield
Novel
278
17
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
Historical Fiction
347
15
Happiness -16
Smarts +50
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
Non-Fiction
30
17
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Historical Fiction
1276
16
The Crucible
Arthur Miller
Tragedy
143
16
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Crime Fiction
466
16
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
Autobiography
283
14
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
Poetry
798
17
The Five Love Languages
Gary Chapman
Self-Help
126
15
Happiness +50
Smarts +50
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
Crime Fiction
672
17
The Giving Tree
Shel Silverstein
Children's Picture Book
31
6
Happiness +8
Smarts +16
The Godfather
Mario Puzo
Crime Fiction
448
19
Happiness -4
Smarts +4
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck
Historical Fiction
418
15
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novel
200
16
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
Science Fiction
216
13
Happiness +16
Smarts +4
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
Fantasy
374
13
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
Comedy
76
14
The Joy of Cooking
Irma S. Rombauer
Cookbook
1152
13
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
Historical Fiction
371
16
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C.S. Lewis
Fantasy
208
11
The Little Engine That Could
Watty Piper
Children's Picture Book
48
6
Happiness +50
Smarts +16
The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien
Fantasy
1216
13
The Meaning of Relativity
Albert Einstein
Non-Fiction
170
17
The Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Merriam Webster
Reference
3350
13
Smarts +100
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
Novel
201
16
The Motorcycle Diaries
Che Guevara
Autobiography
166
17
The Odyssey
Homer
Poetry
541
13
The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway
Novel
132
16
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
Self-Help
236
15
Happiness +50
Smarts +50
The Prince
Niccolo Machiavelli
Non-Fiction
164
17
The Republic
Plato
Novel
570
17
The Rights of Man
Thomas Paine
Non-Fiction
200
17
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Historical Fiction
279
16
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Children's Novel
331
9
Happiness -4
Smarts +16
The Snowy Day
Ezra Jack Keats
Children's Picture Book
40
6
Happiness +16
Smarts +16
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
Novel
326
17
The Time Machine
H.G. Wells
Science Fiction
84
13
Happiness +16
Smarts +8
The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
Non-Fiction
209
17
The Total Money Makeover
Dave Ramsey
Self-Help
289
19
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle
Children's Picture Book
22
6
Happiness +16
Smarts +4
The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
Non-Fiction
950
17
The Zen of Farting
Carl Japikse
Comedy
104
19
Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill
Self-Help
238
17
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
Novel
324
14
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Young Adult Novel
311
11
Happiness +50
Smarts +4
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom
Biography
192
15
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Jules Verne
Science Fiction
394
13
Happiness +50
Smarts +4
Twilight
Stephenie Meyer
Young Adult Novel
498
14
Happiness +4
Smarts +4
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Historical Fiction
1225
19
Where the Red Fern Grows
Wilson Rawls
Children's Novel
273
10
Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak
Children's Picture Book
56
6
Happiness +16
Smarts +4
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Novel
464
16
Happiness +4 Smarts +16
Diet - Go on a diet. Some diets can improve health while others lower health. Diets with lower health benefits could lead to Health problems. Each diet has a monthly price.
List of diets and its effects (May not be accurate)
Atkins diet: Slightly lowers health
High Calorie diet: Raises happiness, lowers health and looks (-16 health per year)
Hot Cheetos diet: Lowers health rapidly (-50 health per year)
Liquid diet: Lowers looks, happiness and health, could result in being diagnosed with malnutrition
Mediterranean diet: Raises happiness and health
Paleo diet: Raises health and looks, lowers happiness
South Beach diet: Raises health and looks
Tapeworm diet: Lowers health and looks rapidly (-50 health, -50 looks per year)
Vegan diet: Character gets malnutrition more easily, raises health, lowers happiness
Vegetarian diet: Character gets malnutrition more easily, raises health
Weight Watchers diet: Raises happiness, health, and looks
Whole30 diet: Raises health, lowers happiness.
Gardening - If the character has a house, they may do some gardening in their garden. You can garden in your parent's house until you're 18, when you need to own a house, This will show a bar showing how relaxing it was while gardening. Gardening increases happiness by 8%
List of Gardening actions
Cutting back the plants
Fertilizing the shrubs
Filling all the birdbaths with water and bird feeders with seeds
Planting some [plant]
Pruning the trees
Pulling all of the weeds
Raking the leaves
Trimming the shrubs
Gym - Going to the Gym costs 5-20 per visit and increases health and looks. If your character has less than 10% health, they will be too weak to work out and unable to do so. Some physical ailments can be contracted at the gym such as ringworm or athlete's foot, but these go away quickly after aging or seeing the doctor. Sometimes a player can find Love at the gym, where they have an opportunity to ask someone on a date or accept a date request. It is available free on Prison.
Memory Test - It is a test with a mini-game where you need to press the flashing colors after they're done flashing, the same colors the same amount of times. An easy way to win this to write the initials of the colors on a paper. This either increases or decreases your smarts depending on your score.
Library - Going to the city's public library increases smarts. This tends to be faster increase when the character is younger rather than old. Sometimes a player can find Love at the library, where they have an opportunity to ask someone on a date or accept a date request.
Martial arts - The player can rank up in belts and can use moves on their enemies in assault situations. They can learn Jiu-Jitsu, Tae Kwon Do, Judo, Karate, or Kung Fu. Killing someone with one of these moves can earn an achievement. If the character has less than 60% health, they will likely not rank up in belts and if their health is below 10%, they will be unable to attend these classes altogether.
Meditation - Meditation increases health and karma. You can also find a "deep awareness" of yourself, meaning you'll know a random stat like say athleticism or fertility.
Walks - The character can choose from a variety of walks. Walking improves health. They might get scenarios such as finding a purse or an animal. However, in some unfortunate cases, the character could suffer a massive heart attack, which usually happens if the character is old and walks at too fast a pace.
