If you think your brain could be doing a better job for you, chances are you’re right.
Like the heart, the brain is an organ that needs training to function efficiently. Whenever you perform routine tasks, your brain turns into a couch potato.
The brain is built to get better with age, with the right training. Get started with these three easy tips to train your brain to get better now:
- READY– Make sure you have a growth mindset. Expect your brain to change and grow at any age.
- SET– Figure out which part of your brain is most dominant, and pick an activity to engage a less dominant area.
- GO– Build social connection and repetition into your activity to get quick results.
First and foremost, choose a growth mindset about your brain. Neuroplasticity, the magic trick your brain does to get better with age, requires learning to trigger the growth of new connections.
Next, make sure you pick the least active part of your brain to work. If you sit for many hours every day, it’s time to get physical to work your parietal lobe!
When it comes to brain training, the key factor standing between success and failure is social connection, the third tip in the tip list offered earlier in this article.
All too often, adults make a big mistake in brain training by doing something alone, such as working on a crossword puzzle, reading a book, or sitting in from of a computer. None of these activities are likely to make your brain perform better.
The brain’s power center, the temporal lobe, is charged up when you interact with others, and powered down when you are alone. As a result, loneliness, now considered the number one threat to public health in the United States, is very hard on the brain.
Here is something to put on your 2019 brain training to-do list: attend a new class or begin a new group activity. For example, local community organizations give you many opportunities to succeed with boosting your brain game through classes, workshops, and activities such as the performing arts.
And take this poem to heart—it will help you and your brain get better with age in 2019!
A new year brings hopes and dreams,
But achieving goals requires clever schemes.
Getting what you want requires no money,
The trick to this can be quite funny.
When dreams come true first in the brain,
Nothing can stop your path toward gain.
Failure and guilt must be dead,
Let visions of success dance in your head.
Go and join a group of beginners
Soon enough you’ll all feel like winners!
Your brain is full of wisdom and wit,
At any time you can shine fully lit
Hope springs eternal deep within,
With a smile and a laugh let your new ways begin.
