brain development Thomas Oppong – Everyone wants a better, and smarter brain to process information faster and have better memory recall. The most brilliant minds don’t have more brain power than the average person, they just use their brains more efficiently. Your brain’s health is a product of your daily habits. To optimize your brain, all you have to do is make slight adjustments to your routine. 30 days offer just enough time to realistically adopt new habits that can help you get smarter and think better, yet long enough to be challenging. In 30 days or less, you can adopt some of these habits to boost your brain power, improve your mental clarity and build a better brain. Exhaust your brain Challenge yourself with a whole new experience. Do more of what exhausts your brain. Your brain needs exhaustion to grow. Take up new, cognitively demanding activity — something new you’ve never done before: dancing, piano lessons, a foreign language — is more likely to boost brain processing speed, strengthen synapses, and expand or create functional networks. “When you’re learning something new, and your brain is feeling like it wants to take a nap, that’s when you know you’re doing things that are growing your brain neurologically, not just maintaining it,” says Dr. Jennifer Jones, a psychologist, and expert in the science of success. Every time you learn something, you create new connections, and the more connections you can maintain, the easier it will be to retain new information in the future. Stop feeding your comfort Comfort provides a state of mental security. When you’re comfortable and life is good, your brain can release chemicals like dopamine and serotonin, which lead to happy feelings. But in the long-term, comfort is bad for your brain. Without mental stimulation dendrites, […]

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