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We all differ in our abilities to solve problems, learn, think logically, understand and acquire new knowledge, integrate ideas, attain goals, and so on. But when you put your mind to it, you will work better, smarter and faster. Intelligence is always work in progress so you are never too late to add to what you already know. The good news is, you don’t have to learn everything in hours, days or even months. The focus should always be on progress.
Farhana,
Very excellent question. Keep the brain active all the time. Do some puzzles such as Sudoku, Memory games, brain games, etc. It does not matter if you win or lose. What matter is you engage the brain. Do this everyday. The brain cannot be left untrained by sleeping or listening to music. You have to read, learn learn learn...learn anything you want. To be honest with you, I am in my late 40's and my IQ is even higher than it was some 20 years ago. I do puzzles every day for 40 minutes. Best of luck.
Your brain is like a muscle, you must exercise by reading different topics in science and daily news. If you have learned new thing, apply them. Learn more things. Learn a new hobby.
I think that one easy way to train your brain and become smarter everyday starts by exercising and managing your diet to keep your body healthy, but even so the information you put into your brain is much more powerful, Ideas, beliefs, and intelligence outlast brute strength. However, your brain is tough to exhaust and is capable of learning at all ages in life. In addition to improving your physical health, boosting your brain power will enhance your overall quality of life. Meanwhile everyday you’re killing time during your commute, or experiencing down time at work, enhance your cognitive skills by adding these some easy habits to your daily routine. You’ll become smarter, enhance both sides of your brain, and reduce the chances of losing your marbles as you age.
1. Read
“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” -Dr. Seuss
Key benefits: focus, concentration, memory, vocabulary, and creativity
2. Solve problems
There’s no better way to boost your cognitive skills than to actually solve problems. Solving problems are the best form of brain exercises in my extremely humble opinion. I’m not saying you should do math problems—unless that’s your jam. Otherwise, try crossword puzzles, model is based entirely around improving your brain functions.
Key benefits: critical thinking, problem solving, logic, creativity, and decision making.
3. Watch documentaries
Netflix and YouTube are crawling with great documentaries. If Game of Thrones is your thing then perhaps you’ll enjoy watching a history documentary. If you’re glued to House of Cards then you might enjoy a documentary on politics. Mix in some fact with your binge on fiction.
4. Take a course
Online courses are a major craze. A variety of platforms are in existence to teach you things like PR, data analysis, self-defense, and photography. In addition to the abundance of online learning platforms, Harvard and MIT have joined the club of providing free online courses.
5. Have diverse friends
Surrounding yourself with people smarter than you is a surefire way to up your game. It should instill a small level of fear to the point where you work to improve yourself. It was always a goal of mine to be in a work setting where I am surrounded by extremely bright people. Although you tend to be attracted to people that are similar, I urge you to broaden your inner circle either on social media or social networking as Bayt's network.
6. Learn a new language
Scientists discovered that bilingual adults have denser grey matter, especially in the brain’s left hemisphere, where most language and communication skills are controlled.
Resources to get you started:
• Duolingo – This is one of the most popular tools on the market to learn a language.
• Chrome Language Immersion – This is a Chrome extension that translates short passages of text in the websites you visit. As you read you’re asked to translate, you can hover over the text for a spoken version, or click it for the original text. This extension is experimental therefore you may not become an expert.
Key benefits: attention span, decision-making, and memory. Bilingual individuals have also been shown to be more logical and rational, and more perceptive of their surroundings.
7. Question everything
“The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing.” -Albert Einstein
Don’t accept everything you read or hear. Challenge all ideas and beliefs. Just because an “expert” makes a statement, doesn’t mean it is true. Just because you read something, doesn’t mean it is the only way. Question everything with the attitude of hearing out someone’s point of view. Engage in dialogue with people of different backgrounds. Bayt is a good platforms to start a dialogue. Remember, everyone has an opinion to share. Especially on the internet.
On sum, These brain enhancing habits don’t take up much time and are easy to add to your daily routine. Beginning with one of these habits will yield results. But I challenge you to start right now.
I read books, watch english news.
- Concentration
- Think why to accomodate an idea and why to reject it
- Think opposites like: is death good or bad? then think Is no-death good or bad?
- Think combination (why shouldn't it come with?)
- Think stand alone (what if we isolate it?)
- Think magnifcation, think minification
Practice memorizing and practice the above you will becme a critical thinker and there you are.
Thanks,
Taria
Practice everyday that makes you perfect.
learn one information evey day can Achieved that
Keep your mind challenged, reading and playing games is a good way.Strategy games like Rainbow Six 3 help in developing cognitive thinking and logic as well as decision-making while under pressure at high stakes.
As far physical training , sit at a place and try starring at a point or any object placed on the table or hung on the wall before you. Daily practice of this will increase your ability to concentrate.
Once achieved a certain level of concentrating ability, take a topic and start analyzing the pros & cons of that. This habit will make you sharper & smarter which you can apply in your day to day activities.
