Train Your Brain

Even though the brain seems like some mysterious glob of knowledge in our heads, you can take some steps to train it one way or another, with an example below:

Exercise your weakest link to learn faster.
"The brain runs on the ‘use
it or lose it' principle," says Dr. Doidge. "For instance, if you have a stroke
and one of your arms stops working correctly—so you use it less—you will
probably begin to rely on your ‘good' arm, strengthening the brain cells devoted
to it. Putting the healthy arm into a sling will force you to rely on only the
injured arm, and you can often then strengthen its brain cells with incremental
exercises." The same goes for mental skills—you can put your ‘good' mental
abilities in a sling and exercise your ‘weak' ones to help your brain to rewire.
"When learning a new language, for example, you should immerse yourself in it
completely by going to a country where you can't fall back on your native
language," he says. "It's like putting a cast on your mother tongue and forcing
your brain to build new pathways so you'll pick up a different way of speaking
more quickly."

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TC