Deep Thoughts: Work That Brain Baby!

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Do we get smarter every day?

Sorry to bring you back to reality if you thought so. It’s not something written into the threads of our genes for our brains to automatically improve as time flows by.

But can we get smarter every day?

YES, WE CAN! Getting smarter involves taking matters into our own hands.

According to Michael Merzenich “your brain — every brain — is a work in progress. It is “plastic.” From the day we’re born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it. If a brain is exercised properly, anyone can grow intelligence, at any age, and potentially by a lot. Or you can just let your brain idle — and watch it slowly, inexorably, go to seed like a sedentary body.”

We tend to neglect our brains as we grow older compared to our childhood. As kids, our curiosity put our brain to work as well as the grueling demands of our school teachers and the high expectations of our parents. As we age, our activities become perfunctory – daily routines that we do without giving a second thought to. We learn what we need to survive and make money and rarely go further. Also, modern technology now teaches us how not to think – Google, GPS, memo pad, calculators, etc. We even receive information passively from news, movies; anime (if you are me) without processing what we see, hear or feel into action. Thus our brains grow slower, less accurate; we lose our memories and maybe end up processing only drool drops from our lips. The popular belief is that it is normal for our mental ability to decline as we age but science proves us wrong. Our brain can be smarter at any age, daily. We just need to work it.

Combing through Quora I came across some very interesting answers regarding how to work our brains and even make a hobby doing it. I won’t be selfish so I would share the link at the end of this write-up. So here is a select few hobbies to make you smarter every day and my opinions about them.

1. Writing: Yes I said it, writing! It is one of the key ways for our brains to automatically process information; it requires creativity, persistence, and commitment. Three important attributes a successful man needs. So just by writing, you don’t just get to think, you also develop your personality as a whole. And please don’t say you require special skill to write, the skill to write is built by writing itself. And one of the best ways to start writing is to keep a diary, mustn’t be daily but should have a consistency; the words must not be fancy or dense like the writings of Wole Soyinka. It is all about the essence of writing which is to process the information you receive, even retain memory and discover new things. Deep Thoughts is built upon this concept and on this note, I want to slot in an apology

P.S: I contrived not to write last week. In a deliberate effort not to distract myself from the singular project that consumed all my thought process, I schemed and planned how to deceive my conscience. As a result, when the week passed, I felt neither guilt nor sorrow but for a little twinge of regret for my readers, I am therefore consumed with the need to wholeheartedly apologise. I am sorry for not writing last week.

2. Reading: I bet you were expecting this one. Read anything and everything, knowledge is power, it is trite to keep repeating it and one cannot overemphasize the importance of reading, it’s one of the major ways we acquire knowledge for personal development. Read news, read fiction, read philosophy; the art of war is such an interesting book, read tweets, Quora, read classic, read history. History urggggggh. Just read period. But while reading, don’t forget to externalize what you have read through writing, like I said before, we are forced to pay attention to our memories when we write. Unless you want to just consume information and forget them, you got to write to make sense out of them and keep them in our memory for future use.

3. Cubing: If you are like me, you have never solved a cube puzzle before. I always get frustrated but guess what, cubing plays a key role in improving one’s cognitive skills and personally I believe everyone can solve a cube, we just need to patiently do it, and your first solution may open many doors to solving other complex cubes. So go get a cube. I am talking to me too.

4. Staying Silent: Easy right? Okay try being silent for one minute, there you go, your eyes flicked back to this screen to continue reading. Staying silent is tough but with practice, it becomes a valuable asset that makes us smarter, in silence, we think before we talk at least in the few times I have kept silent in critical situations, I felt smarter. Limiting your speech makes you speak more meaningful sentences as your brain gets a chance to work before everything comes out.

5. Exercising: there are pages and pages of medical jargon and health lingo about how exercising affects the brain positively, even an account on Forbes of one of the morning routines of highly successful people included exercise. I can testify that it is not easy to exercise daily but I learned to take long walks in the morning. Okay, truth be told, I deceive my brain to enjoy a long walk because I get to save money.

6. Playing a musical instrument: Music excites the brain as it tries to interpret it. It engages the creative side of our brain. For every time you create music, your brain works in all its fullness. So I hereby stroll to pick up my lonely unsung guitar hoping a few pulls at its strings daily would work my brain. Don’t look at me with condemning eyes.

7. Mental Math: This is for me and everyone out there, please do not hate math, I repeat, do not hate math. It is essential in making us smarty pants. As you age one of the things you notice when your brain has been neglected is the inability to quickly work the simple math. Get familiar with numbers, learn the patterns and sequences, did you know that every multiple of the number 9 from 1- 100 adds up back to 9. Try it. 2×9=18, 1+8=9; 3×9=27, 2+7=9… Solve maths as often as you can, get rid of the calculator for simple addition, help the kids around you with their maths homework. It will hone your analytical skills and it becomes fun when you do it often.

8. Learn a new language: Konnichiwa, Ogenki desu ka, watashi wa nihongo o manabimasu. That is Japanese, go find out the meaning and put your brain to work. One of the best ways to build memory is to learn a new language. Doctors even say that it reduces one’s chances of having Alzheimer.

So, folks, we got a lot to do starting today, let’s put our brain to work.

Here is the link I promised

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