The brain is like a muscle that we must exercise. For example, if you want to have firm buttocks you should do exercises to exercise them ... the same happens with our brain, if we want it to stay active and healthy we will have to exercise it daily with hobbies, not with obligations that we do not want to do! If you want your training and studies to have good results thanks to having a faster and smarter brain, one way to start is by considering adding new hobbies to your life.
I am sure you will know of some cases of people with natural deterioration of brain functions due to age. Many people lose their short-term memory and may even lose executive functions and develop brain disease. But now we know (thanks to neuroscience) that we can slow down the natural process of deterioration in the brain. It is as easy as incorporating hobbies into our life and that not only can you reverse the natural process of deterioration of the brain, but now you can have a more active and efficient mind ... do you want to know what it is?
Read, read and read
It is not necessary that you have to read 500-page novels that you do not like, what matters is that you read, anything! If you like comics, read comics, if you like narrative books too, if you like to read reports on the Internet or read news, it is also a good idea. Reading increases brain function in several areas, stimulates the growth of new neural connections by absorbing new information. Reading will help you to have better problem-solving skills and even to have greater and better empathy with others. As if that were not enough, reading will also help you improve memory and enhance imagination.
To learn a new language
When new languages are learned, the brain uses the commands for sounds, to give them meaning, and then responds to it. Also, when a person is bilingual (or more) can focus on more than one task at a time without losing productivity since the parts of the brain are related to reasoning, planning and memory (which will be more developed).
Learn to play a musical instrument or sing
It is known that learning to play a musical instrument in children helps them improve their cognitive functions, but in adults it is no less. Playing a musical instrument or singing increases the volume of gray matter and improves the neural connections between the two hemispheres of the brain. For these reasons, early musical training allows students to be better in mathematics as well as in any other area… and adults alike!
Logic Games
Puzzles, Sudoku puzzles, crosswords or word searches help improve the brain and its functions. The more information you put into your brain, the more functions it can perform, so if you exercise your brain, the stronger and more efficient it will function. Brain plasticity not only occurs when children are young, but also when we are adults. Brain plasticity is a term that is used to refer to the new connections that are made in the brain when we obtain new information or when we remember things.
Meditation and yoga
Meditation is not something that people do in isolation, it is becoming more and more widespread thanks to all its benefits, and the same happens with yoga. Meditation allows for better thought control even when not in a meditative mode. This control allows better attention, concentration, memory and mental organization. If you are a student, you should make sure that if you meditate, you will do the exams better and your study hours will be more productive. Additionally, people who meditate may have better memories as gray matter increases in areas of the brain that control learning and memory. Older people who meditate keep more gray matter in their brains than those who don't. Students or people with behavior problems make meditation necessary since it reduces stress and anxiety, main factors of bad behavior.
What other hobbies do you think could make your brain go faster and make you smarter?