8 Effective Methods of Training the Brain

Have you ever noticed that the older you become the harder it is to do the work you don't know? It is scientificaly proved that our brain is so lazy that it automatically chooses things it already knows. Our brain tries to lower the energy we waste, so it creates "programms" we do automatically every day. When you read your fauvorite newspaper or work at the job you know well, or speak with your native language - your brain is degradating. A biologist Richard Semon named this programms our brain creates "engrams". They exist in the form of roads in our brain. We create them as we start to do some things over and over again.

An article in Job.naij explains that the longer we repeat someting - the less energy our brain spends on it. And the bad thing about it is that way brain loses it's flexibility. Imagine your brain as a concrete that will get rock-hard if you won't mix it. If you don't want it to happen, and you don't, here are eight(8) ways or things to do that will help:

1. Get out of you comfort zone:

If you feel uncomfortable when something familiar, like your favourite site changes, you should notice that every time and get profit of it. If your favourite ice-cream is out of stock - don't be mad about it! When that happens think about why not to set yourself a goal to taste every other single ice-cream flavor in that shop?

2. Do not re-read books:

We all have that one favourite book, that we can read over and over again. Well, guess what? You shouldn't do it. Also don't watch movies you've already seen. Yes, you feel good when you notice the details you didn't notice before, but also you take away a chance to show you something new from other booksand movies.

3. Seek for new routes:

Try to find new routs from your work to your home and vice-versa. Seek for different shops, you've never been to. A movie-theater on the other side of the town.

4. Listen to new music:

Even if you have thousands of songs on your iPod and you think that you've heard everything I must tell you the bad news. We listen to 50-100 familiar tracks all the time. The reason is the same: we adapted to them, and our brain doesn't need to waste resourses on them. There iscouple of thousands of radiostations in the world and millions of songs. So why not try something new?

5. Look for new acquaintances

Well, ofcourse it is more comfortable to have few friends who you see every weekend to discuss football match or movie. I'm not telling you should abandon you friends, but why don't you make a few new? Sometimes people we meet can change our interests or ever our lifestyle.

6. Have kids

Children are instant sourse of chaos. They are changing everything every second. They ask questions you've never think of. Or if you're not ready to have kids try to get a dog. It will definitely bring a lot of new things into your life.

7. Buy a new perfume

If you have a favourite perfume that you use for years - it is time to change it. Smells have a lot of influence on our brain. So try to change your perfume everytime you buy it.

8. Learn foreign language

New words that are totally different from your native language are the best way to train your brain. Espesially when you go deeper into a language.

Our brain is arranged much more difficult, than it seems. Those engrams can influence on everything. And if you will train your brain and seek for something new everytime you'll never be that old guy that can't settle a timer on a microvawe without grandchilds help.