Brain Flex: Improve Your Mental Strength With These Simple Exercises
Like physical strength, mental toughness is achieved through exercise. And as much as your physical strength is crucial to performing tasks, your mental strength plays a big role in accomplishing them. Increase your mental strength by doing these basic exercises.
Read
Read everything. From novels to articles to news to even cereal boxes. If you can’t find the time to read, try replacing an hour of television with reading. You don’t have to use an actual book to read (though it is preferable), digital content will do.
Try learning something new every week
Our brain rewires every time we try to learn something new. It’s because the brain is doing something it hasn’t done before. Ever wonder why days seems to get shorter as we grow older? It’s actually our mental pathways get more and more defined because as adults, our days look a lot the same. Mental strength requires that we continue building new neural pathways, and we do that by learning something new.
Avoid multitasking
In productivity, multitasking is actually counterproductive. We think that we accomplish multiple tasks in the shorter amount of time, but really, all we do is sacrifice the quality of our work. Doing a single task at a time, makes the brain focus more, providing more quality thoughts. Plus, you actually finish quicker. Start the day by focusing on your bigger tasks first, working through the easiest one.
Hi there, I’m Dr.Wayne Imber. I am a professor of psychology and used to teach in Arizona, Chicago, and Massachusetts. Read more about psychology from my Google+ page .
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Read everything. From novels to articles to news to even cereal boxes. If you can’t find the time to read, try replacing an hour of television with reading. You don’t have to use an actual book to read (though it is preferable), digital content will do.
Try learning something new every week
Our brain rewires every time we try to learn something new. It’s because the brain is doing something it hasn’t done before. Ever wonder why days seems to get shorter as we grow older? It’s actually our mental pathways get more and more defined because as adults, our days look a lot the same. Mental strength requires that we continue building new neural pathways, and we do that by learning something new.
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Avoid multitasking
In productivity, multitasking is actually counterproductive. We think that we accomplish multiple tasks in the shorter amount of time, but really, all we do is sacrifice the quality of our work. Doing a single task at a time, makes the brain focus more, providing more quality thoughts. Plus, you actually finish quicker. Start the day by focusing on your bigger tasks first, working through the easiest one.
Hi there, I’m Dr.Wayne Imber. I am a professor of psychology and used to teach in Arizona, Chicago, and Massachusetts. Read more about psychology from my Google+ page .
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