8. Learn to Play a Musical Instrument
Picking up an instrument will not only impress your friends, it will make you smarter. When you play an instrument, you employ a vast area of your brain at once.
Consider the senses. You use your visual, auditory, and physical capacities all while playing an instrument. Your experience of playing music uses tons of cognitive processes simultaneously, for instance:
- analytic capacities to read the music
- visual cues from watching your hands
- maintaining rhythm and tone
- awareness of physical space
- utilizing your motor cortex
- building muscle memory
- engaging in social cues of performance
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