The key to improve your mental power lies in doing things you havent done before and therefore forcing your brain to establish new connections.
We all tend to do the things we have allways done and we are good in – over and over again. As this might be good to reach a level of mastery in those [...]
The key to improve your mental power lies in doing things you havent done before and therefore forcing your brain to establish new connections.
We all tend to do the things we have allways done and we are good in – over and over again. As this might be good to reach a level of mastery in those particular skills it wont help the brain to gain more power. Vera Birkenbihl uses the nice metaphor of a “beaten path” in our brain which becomes a solid “data highway” later, the more we do or think those special ”things” over and over again.
In order to develop a new level in the brain and improve the general effectiveness we have to do things, we haven`t done before in order to make the brain establish a new “beaten path”.
So here are 5 exercise examples to improve your mental power:
- Get dressed for work or take a shower with your eyes closed – break routines!
- Take a completely new route to your working or shopping place.
- Drink or eat something you have never tried before (maybe an exotic juice or fruit?).
- Learn a new activity like playing an instrument, learn paragliding or salsadancing.
- Change your typical recreation style: if you normally enjoy shopping and the movietheater, go fishing and gardening instead. And the other way around.
In one of the books of Lawrence Katz you find many more of those exercises (83!). Everytime you do usual things in an unusual way you will really notice how your brain has to figure out new ways to get the activity organised. That is exactly the effect you want to get “new connections”. The same happens if you do unusual things - only you wont feel the difference as much as in the acitivities you are used to do, but in a normal way.
Anybody who is interested to find out more finds here the ressources:
Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises
Keep Your Brain Alive: Neurobic Exercises to Help Prevent Memory Loss and Increase Mental Fitness
2 your learning success,
Dirk
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