How to increase Brainpower?

Human brains are the most complicated machine in the world, it has limitless power nobody can describe how powerful it is.

There are some ways with which we can increase brain power. People think that computers are the most complex and best decision-making machines.

But if you compare computers with the human brain then computers ability is just 1% of the brain, it's not even comparable. An increase in brainpower will be useful for us not only in learning new skills or memorizing things but also useful in our work areas.

In this competitive world, it is very important that your brain works effectively, whether you want to learn new skills, want to crack any exam, want to start your business whatever your goal might be, to achieve that you need a strong and powerful brain.

In this article, I am going to discuss 5 practical ways to increase brain power. So that in the end, you will be in a position to use these ways to improve your brainpower. Let's start...

Two myths about brainpower-

Before understanding the different ways let me first tell you the important truth about the brain. There are two misconceptions everybody has about the brain -

1. We can't increase brain power after a certain age.
2. Everybody needs 10000 hrs to master a new skill.

Most people used to think that after a certain age our brain will reduce its power and efficiency to do quality work, also it is not possible for the brain to produce new brain cells to work effectively.

Well, this is completely not the truth, we can grow our brain cells at any age only thing we need to do is to take care of some important things.

We need to focus on a healthy diet, daily aerobic exercise, reading books, or learning new things, improving the quality of thoughts, etc.

By doing these things we can grow neurons production even after the age of 50 years. So remove this misconception from your brain that your brain power would not increase after the age of 30.

Because before understanding different ways to increase brain power, it is important that you should remove this misconception.

Check out this wonderful ted talk by Neuroscientist Sandrine Thuret in which she explained how one can grow brain cells and increase the power of the brain without any limitation of age.

Every time when you learn something your brain makes the functional, chemical and structural change so it changes completely irrespective of your age.

The learning speed of a brain is varied from person to person. Even though it is stated that we need 10,000hrs of practice to master a new skill but it is not true for all.

Some take more than 10,000 hrs to master a new skill, some may take less than 10,000 hrs. it completely depends on a person's chemical, functional and structural change of a brain.

So make sure you should give time to yourself while learning something new, never get frustrated because it takes more time.

Check out - Is 10000 hours rule really makes you the expert in any skill?

I hope now you successfully removed those two misconceptions from your mind, now you agree that anyone can increase brain power irrespective of his/her age and every person's brain is different and it understands or learns things with the different time periods.

So now let's move on to those different ways and understand how you can increase brainpower!

Top 5 ways to increase brain power -?

1. Avoid Multi-tasking -?

In today's world, Multi-tasking is overrated people think that the person who does multiple things at a time is an intelligent person. But in reality, this is not the case, sometimes the person who performs multitasking is unable to focus on one task at a time.

Great results are possible only when we focus on one task at a time. Human brains are not designed to do multi-tasking, it is designed to handle one task at a time with full of concentration and sharp focus.

Then also you saw most of the people watch TV while doing work, they use social media while doing office work similarly students have the habit of listening to music while studying.

In all these examples you are trying to focus on two things simultaneously which is not going to be possible. It's like switching your focus from your work to TV continuously.

In other words, multitasking is actually switching from one task to another continuously because of this habit our brain reduced its efficiency to work at optimum level.

Continuous switching distracts our senses and energy flow in one place or task because of which it becomes difficult for us to focus on one thing.

I think you experienced this many times that when you are busy doing your work and at the same time if you are scrolling the mobile phones continuously then after some time you feel completely lost in the mobile.

because when we do some type of task or work with full of focus at that time all our senses are focused on that task, also all our energy is concentrated at that task.

In that case, our brain helps us to produce great results, find better ideas or solutions to the problems. So it is important to avoid multitasking because multitasking increases the habit of switching and then switching disturbs your senses.

Now how you avoid this problem, just make a list of important work/tasks on the paper that you want to do throughout the day.

Set a time for each task for example - for the study if you want to allocate 6hr a day during that time you should make sure not to use social media and other irreverent things.

Make a detailed plan for 6hr like which subject you are going to study, what topic you cover, how much time you want to give for each subject etc. During this 6 hr, you may feel bored but make sure you should strictly avoid switching.

Just take a break of 2 min and do deep breathing make sure in that 2 min you should not open social media or emails because these things make it easy for your brain to switch to other things and disturb senses.

This is applicable in any area not just in the study while doing any type of work or task make sure you should fully focus on that task only and never give any opportunity to your brain for switching.

With this continuous practice, you will automatically stop switching from one task to another. Your concentration ability will improve a lot.

All the world-class champions, athletes, or businessmen always try to avoid multitasking and they focus on only one task at a time because of which all their senses and energy concentrated on that task only hence they produce the best results.

So Monotasking helps increase brain power.

2. Continuous Learning increases brain power-

To maintain a healthy body and build strong muscles we do daily exercises like gym, running, yoga, etc. During exercise we create intensive pressure on our body by lifting heavy weights, stretching the entire body because of which our muscles become strong and as the result our body becomes healthy.

Similarly, if we want to increase brain power or grow brain muscles we have to do brain exercise. Brain exercise means we have to challenge our brain consistently by learning new things, solving difficult puzzles, learning new languages, etc.

Continuously learning new things creates pressure on the brain that grows brain muscles and as a result, increases brainpower.

The human brain acts like a muscle, if you don't train your brain by challenging or involving it in a new activity, there will be muscle atrophy.

See when we do exercise our body creates new muscles and make us healthy but if we stop doing it then all the muscles shrink. Similarly, if we stop learning new things our brain muscles shrink and hence reduction in brainpower.

So the single most effective tool that helps you become mentally strong , as well as increase brain power, is continuous learning. What we can do for continuous learning see below list -?

1. Reading different books - It helps you build a strong thought process and gives you new perspectives.
2. Learning new skills - Right now there are so many e-learning platforms are there which provide good quality courses in all domains. Select your domain and start learning new skills in your field.
3. Learn a new language - this is one of the biggest challenges to your brain that will help you improve brainpower.
4. Learn new musical instruments or any new things which challenge your brain.
5. Learn new vocabulary and repeat new words daily.

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3. Daily exercise increases brain power -

Daily exercise is the most important thing which increases the power of our brain. It increases the blood flow in our minds.

It's not necessary that you should join the gym and do a heavy workout, just a basic 20 min of walking can increase your brainpower.

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