NEUROPLASTICITY

Neuroplasticity refers your brain’s ability to reorganize itself, both physically and functionally, throughout your life due to your environment, directed learning, behaviour, thinking, and emotions.

 “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

When you change your beliefs, learn something new or become mindful of your habitual reactions to unpleasant emotions, you actually alter the neurochemistry and the structure of your brain.

The focus should always be on progress. The simplest, most direct way to be smart is to build deep knowledge about things you care about. Building knowledge of an area improves your memory, thinking, and decisions about that topic. You can gain knowledge faster about a topic you care deeply about than a random topic. But if they are not really the kinds of things you are interested in, then you will be hard pressed to devote time and effort to learn much.