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6 Ways to Train Your Brain to Literally Get Smarter
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Enjoy intelligent company
Being in the company of intelligent people will indirectly make you want to continue developing your own intelligence.
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Eat brain food
Food is fuel for the body, but it does matter what kind of fuel you are using.
High nutrition foods work well to power up your brain. Walnuts are a great source of brain food, so is fish; tuna, mackerel, salmon contain rich, fatty acids that have been proven to help neurons function.
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Play brain games
Your brain needs to face challenges, to push its limits to make progress.
Try brain games like memory games, Sudoku, word puzzles, and problem-solving games. I love escape rooms that make you think on the fly, and under a timeline. They will increase your pattern recognition, logic, and ability to process thought quickly.
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A journaling habit
Taking notes or only writing down things or ideas is creating an extension of your mind.
Your thoughts will be recorded, and the routine of writing them down will enable you to think more thoroughly and improve your way of thinking.
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Addicted to Consuming Information
The amount of content on the Internet is huge and it’s practically impossible for us to consume it all. But we struggle with it anyway.
This creates a situation where we are constantly diges...
Information Clutter
In the case of information, reading several articles and sources on the same topic can create a lot of clutter. Because it creates internal struggles and questions:
- What sort of information is important?
- This post said this is important while another post said it wasn’t important. What information is relevant here?
- What information should I internalize and apply?
The LATCH principle
... for organizing information:
- Location: put the most relevant stuff to be within reach.
- Alphabet: for organizing lists of people and statistics, dictionaries, and official documents.
- Time: used when providing step by step instructions or when things have to be in chronological order.
- Category: organize information by similarity or relatedness.
- Hierarchy: organizing information that is used collectively to compare things.
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Empathy
Empathy means seeing things through someone else's eyes. It is an essential component that keeps relationships running smoothly. It allows us to create bonds of trust, gives insights into anoth...
Empathy in the business world
There are many studies that link empathy to business results. Empathy is correlated with increased sales, performance of the best managers of product development teams, and with enhanced performance in a diverse workforce.
It is predicted that those with a strong right-brain (interpersonal) qualities will have the upperhand in the Conceptual Age.
Reasons why empathy is important
Dr. Daniel Goleman gives three reasons why empathy is so important:
- The increased use of teams (that could spark different emotions.)
- The rapid pace of globalization (with cross-cultural communication that could lead to misunderstanding)
- The growing need to retain talent.
Leaders with empathy do more than sympathize with people - they use their knowledge to improve their companies in skillful and subtle ways.
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What willpower is
Willpower is the ability to resist or delay short-term desires to achieve long-term goals. Other names for willpower are self-discipline, self-control, self-regulation, determinati...
Benefits of willpower
- Self-control appears to be a better predictor of academic achievement, a determining factor of effective leadership, and essential for marital satisfaction.
- People who harness their willpower more effectively are happier, healthier, have better relationships, are further ahead in their careers, are more able to manage stress and deal with conflict.
The neuroanatomy of willpower
- The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is the part of our brains situated right behind our forehead. It is responsible for abstract thinking, analyzing thoughts, and regulating behavior.
- The PFC controls what we think about, what we pay attention to, how we feel. Studies point out that this part of the brain is only fully developed around age 25.
- The "I will power" is controlled by the region near the upper left side of the brain and helps you start and continue with not so fun tasks.
- The right side handles the "I won't power," preventing you from acting out on every impulse.
- The "I want power" sits in the middle of the PFC and keeps track of your goals and desires.