10 Habits of Highly Successful Brains
Alvaro Fernandez, co-founder of cognitive fitness firm SharpBrains, is now blogging at the Huffington Post. He just posted a thoughtful list of "10 Habits of Highly Successful Brains." Here are #1 and #5:
Previously on BB:
• Mind gyms for cognitive fitness Link
1. Learn what is the "It" in "Use It or Lose It". A basic understanding will serve you well to appreciate your brain's beauty as a living and constantly-developing dense forest with billions of neurons and synapses.Link
5. Thrive on Learning and Mental Challenges. The point of having a brain is precisely to learn and to adapt to challenging new environments. Once new neurons appear in your brain, where they stay in your brain and how long they survive depends on how you use them. "Use It or Lose It" does not mean "do crossword puzzle number 1,234,567". It means, "challenge your brain often with fundamentally new activities."
Previously on BB:
• Mind gyms for cognitive fitness Link
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Use It Or Lose It pretty much sums it up. I really should think about grad school, as nice as this 1.5 year vacation has been.
A related note: Disney really needs to sell its Baby Einstein content, for all the bad publicity ultra-young Tv is getting.
it's okay, losing it is terribly underrated
@2 As far as my experience is panning out, grad school might be killing as many brain cells as it is helping to develop. Grad school should be difficult, of course, but I've had some professors take this to the extreme.
...not to deter you in any way. I suppose the moral of my story is to make darn sure you know as much of what your program entails before you go into it. And you've probably been learning some good life skills during that 1.5 year break. I wish I'd taken one.