Brain upgrade: 15 minutes a day, exercise your brain like a muscle

Many people spend time exercising their muscles every day, but few people consciously exercise their brains.

Brain exercise is not only good for improving the dimension of thinking, but also allows us to retrieve information faster and enhance our attention.

1. Multi-sensory reception of information

New or different content stimulates underutilized brain areas, making them more easily activated and helping to improve overall cognitive ability.

Unfamiliar sources of knowledge force the brain to engage in more activity, think better or focus more. You can rotate to use multiple senses to obtain information, stay more focused, and remember more information.

2. Keep learning

You can read an article about a topic of interest every day, and spend 5 to 10 minutes reading what you find.

No matter what field you are interested in, such as health, relationships, personal finance, career direction, art, philosophy, business and finance, or psychology, you can find a lot of high-quality information in books and on the Internet.

After you start reading, write down one or two sentences to summarize what you have learned. You can add to it every day and review it every week to consolidate the information in your mind.

3. Develop a hobby

If you like arts and crafts, painting, writing, journaling, deep reading or any other personal hobby, practicing this hobby for 10 minutes every day can improve your cognitive function. Because in this process, most of the brain's functions are used.

4. Metacognition

Metacognition is the cognition of cognition.

For example, when students are learning, on the one hand, they are carrying out various cognitive activities (perception, memory, thinking, etc.), and on the other hand, they have to actively monitor and regulate their various cognitive activities. This re-perception, re-memory, and re-thinking of their own cognitive activities such as perception, memory, and thinking is called metacognition.

Metacognition can be understood as "thinking about your thoughts" or "being aware of your consciousness."

Spend 5 minutes a day to reflect on your daily life. You can do this in the morning or before going to bed.