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5 Habits That Will Help Your Brain Stay in Peak Condition
Adequate Sleep
Have plenty of sleep to protect your brain from shrinking, avoiding any protein buildup (which eats brain cells) and the rapid reduction in brain functioning.
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Our Brains are Upgradable
Our minds are not static, but dynamic. The Brain has the capability to modify itself, change its structure, and to alter its biochemistry, at any age.
We can renew, rewire, heal and adapt our brains.
Juggling
You can improve your grey matter by learning a new, complex skill like juggling.
The simple act of juggling has recently been linked with better brain function. A new study reveals that learning to juggle may cause certain areas of your brain to grow.
Learn Something New
Even if it is just for 10 minutes before going to bed, you should be learning new stuff every day, a new skill, a new word, a new kind of idea or philosophy. Expose your brain to new frontiers.
Adequate Sleep
Have plenty of sleep to protect your brain from shrinking, avoiding any protein buildup (which eats brain cells) and the rapid reduction in brain functioning.
Exercising
Exercise rewires the brain. Keep your body active by taking any kind of daily exercise.
Even if you take a 20-minute walk or cycling, it can do wonders for your brain.
Meditation
Meditation can permanently rewire your brain to raise the levels of happiness.
The effects and benefits of meditation include stress reduction, improved concentration, a boost in memory and reduced emotional reactions.
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Effects of music on productivity
- Listening to music with lyrics is distracting for most people. It’s best to avoid it when working on tasks that require focus or the learning of new information.
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Music and the brain
Music has a real impact on human emotions and perception. Music activates different areas of the brain in different people, but there are general brain and mood patterns revealed by music research.
For the most part, research suggests that listening to music can improve your efficiency, creativity and happiness in terms of work-related tasks.
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Keeping Your Brain Healthy
- We can improve every aspect of our lives by keeping our most vital organ, our brain, healthy.
- Exercise is not only good for your body but helps your brain by enhancing many brain s...
Tea and Brain Health
Drinking tea is good for the brain, helping regulate the age-related decline. It also strengthens the brain connections, the neural network inside the brain, making information processing more efficient.
Even coffee is said to be good to ward off the onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
Better Heart = Better Brain
Anything that is bad for the heart is bad for the brain, including smoking cigarettes, or having a sedentary lifestyle, or having diabetes.
Your blood sugar, body mass index, diet and blood pressure all contribute to the health of your heart, and your brain.
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Muscle Memory
Our most repeated physical actions can, with continual practice, be performed automatically without any real-time awareness.
We think of those particular skills being stored in our ‘muscle ...
Types Of Memory
- Declarative (or Semantic) memory is our factual memory which stores the details like the information and figures, but not the visual, emotional or sensory details.
- Episodic Memory stores our life events, for us to be able to relive our past, complete with all the atmospheric details.
- Procedural Memory is the memory of skills, in which the brain records the sensory input from the various body parts and muscles during a particular activity, and is able to replicate the muscle application and movement.
The Primary Motor Cortex
It is the area of the brain responsible for learning new skills.
Using brain mapping tools, scientists have discovered that the more we use a certain body part, the more information about it is stored in the Primary Motor Cortex region of the brain, which alters its size and the number of connections with the other regions of the brain.
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Lifestyle choices influence how you age
Adopting specific lifestyle behaviors can have a tangible effect on how well you age: activities like learning a new language, playing a musical instrument, taking part in aerobic exercise, and dev...
Aging process and cognitive decline
As time passes, there is a build-up of toxins in the brain that correlate to the aging process of cognitive decline. Although this is a natural part of growing older, many factors can exacerbate it. Stress, neurotoxins such as alcohol and lack of (quality and quantity) sleep can speed up the process.
Neuroplasticity
The key to resilient aging is improving neurogenesis, the birth of new neurons.
This activity occurs in the hippocampus, the part of the brain that lays down memories. And we respond to and store new experiences every day, and cement them during sleep. The more we can experience new activities, people, places, and emotions, the more likely we are to encourage neurogenesis.
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Brain drain
Relying on tech to “do it for you” can make us mentally lazy.
Research by University College London into the brains of trainee taxi drivers showed that those who...
Learning a new language
Speaking more than two languages has a protective effect on memory in seniors who practice foreign languages over their lifetime or at the time of the study.
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Mental Models: Out of Box Thinking
Mental models are the various thinking frameworks that are used to understand life, make decisions, and solve problems.
Just raw intelligence is not enough to solve problems. A different or a...
Mental Models: Examples
A mental model is an explanation of how something works. They are beliefs, worldviews or frameworks of thinking. You carry a certain kind of thinking in you to arrive at a solution to a problem.
Some examples:
- Demand and Supply: to understand the economy
- Game Theory: to understand trust and relationships
- Entropy: to understand disorder and decay
Yuval Noah Harari
“Scientists generally agree that no theory is 100 percent correct. Thus, the real test of knowledge is not truth, but utility.”
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The millimeter difference
According to a cosmetic surgeon, a millimeter in a few spots of a face can be the difference between being very ugly or a supermodel.
There are times when you feel you are miles away from y...
Increase your rejection rate
When you want to hook up with a wonderful person, there is a chance you may get rejected. If you don't think you can handle it, increase your rejection rate.
Getting used to being rejected builds mental muscle that will eventually get you a yes from someone you thought were out of your league.
Embrace negative experiences
Every day, a billion things could go wrong for you and create a negative experience.
Learn to embrace the negative. Reframe your brain, and you will experience something new. Think to yourself, "Isn't it great that it is raining today. Now I can stay inside and read a book."
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Strengthening the mind
Neuroscience research shows you can keep your brain sharp in much the same way you keep your body fit.
- At work: Attack your big challenges first. Don’t waste your mornings with routine, ...
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Difficult work and brain health
Fast thinking, prioritizing, and decision making are actually making your brain stronger and preparing it for top performance for years to come.
The things you struggle with but ...
Maximize your brain's performance
Building a brain-exercise routine will probably be successful if it mirrors the most successful ways to create any other routine.
The answer to maxing out your brain’s performance abilities for the rest of your life lies in how you exercise it—just like your body.
Strengthen your mind every day
- At work: Attack your big challenges first. Don’t waste your mornings with routine, repetitive tasks.
- At home: Take on more challenging hobbies. Do a crossword puzzle, play Sudoku, make home improvement plans.
- In relationships: Don’t shy away from difficult conversations with your partner or friends. Discuss big ideas and how to bring them to life.
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Music benefits us
One study showed that people with Alzheimer's disease handle their stressful emotions better when they listen to music.
Other studies revealed that certain types of musi...
Music rewards us
In a musical reward experiment, researchers found that music is, in itself, a viable reward to motivate the brain to learn new information.