5 Effective Ways to Boost Your Brain Power

My second favorite tool to boost brain power is this book by Japanese neuroscientist Kawashima Ruta. The book’s challenges include solving simple mathematical calculations such as “14-7” or “7x9”, memorizing words, and counting numbers from 1 to 120 aloud.

Sounds easy, right? But all of these exercises must be done against the clock. This is a key idea of the whole book: do the brain-training exercises as fast as possible. Ruta researches the human brain, and after numerous experiments he arrived at the conclusion that a time deficit runs some high-intensity processes in the brain. Just try to solve 40 simple calculations in 1 min 20 sec, and you will see that it’s not so easy as it seemed!

I don’t know any more effective ways to boost your brain power than bookworming. Try to imagine: smart people have spent years or decades to collect information, interpretate and share it in the pages of books. And now we can get someone’s life work in one click! Any information on any subject is accessible to feed your brain. Use it.

I know, this is a very hard task and many people say “Oh, I don’t have a facility for languages.” But the point is that you don’t need unique talents for languages – you need languages to develop these “not-so-unique” talents. Languages are the same as mathematics or chess, when a child starts with simple calculations or moves and then combines them into incredible formulas and beautiful chess games. Start learning languages and you will never stop!

What? Sometimes, my brain needs a rest.

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