I learn most from my young friends and it’s one of them, a Harvard trained medical research student, who introduced to me how the brain exercise compliment overall fitness.
I have been contemplating on regulating my workout schedule to stay fit, train for the next level in swimming competition and become a worthy fitness consultant, when the new dimension comes into attention. Exercise the brain by thinking hard.
While the planned workout schedule of yoga, swimming and weights could border extreme workout at my age, I am a novice when it comes to challenging the brain.
That’s I avoid crossword puzzles, complex maths, chess, riddles and even scrabble. The same young friend introduced ‘Dopamine’ to me sometime back and I let it pass thinking it’s complex.
My thought process and thus any brain challenge is like that of an idiot. Now I have to think how to change it. And it’s complex and hard. Perhaps that’s just the beginning of challenging the brain.
I can feel the brain is in attention and what’s required, perhaps, is to pursue the thinking process though difficult and very hard.
Yes, think hard!
I think reading challenging books and engaging in intense conversations does the best for our brain staying nimble. While I love crossword puzzles, I think they just get my brain better at crossword puzzles.
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Thank you Elizabeth
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I feel like everything is mental. Its all in the mind!
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Sure it is. Thank you
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