The advantages of brain training

 

Every day life can be challenging, whether it is work or family or any other aspect of our lives that requires us to utilize our various problem-solving skills. Many say that an ideal and healthy lifestyle requires physical exercise at least 4 times a week. But what about our brain? A lot of people forget that the brain needs to be exercised too, otherwise our cognitive functions will start to decline, and our creative thinking will be diminished as well, since the brain turns everything into an automatized process. However, brain training, memory games and other exercises that require creative thinking can keep our brain fresh and healthy while also improving our problem-solving skills!

In short, these games can help you improve your concentration, train visual memory, increase and strengthen your short term memory, and increase your attention to detail, which by the way is really important if you work a job that requires extensive thinking. Mind games and brain training exercises also help you improve the ability to find similarities and differences similar constructs while also helping to classify objects that are grouped by similar traits. Neglect these things, and your days will quickly become dull and difficult because you can’t really solve problems you’ve been able to before. It is important to mention that Intelligence is not a fixed characteristic that one is simply born with. Intelligence has to be developed and cultivated, and also maintained after you’ve acquired extra knowledge and wisdom. Mind games, mind puzzles are simple and practical exercises that can help you retain your critical thinking.

Also, the difficulty of these have to be increased over time because certain studies have shown that if an every day task does not increase in difficulty, your brain will simply become bored and start to automatize the process. This means that you will feel the lack of challenge in your life, which directly impacts your motivation to try out new things and face new challenges. Take Sudoku for example. The more you play Sudoku, the better you get, but after a while, you will start to solve a Sudoku puzzle in way less time than you did before. This happens until eventually the exercise won’t be challenging at all anymore, as the brain starts to automatize the process of solving the puzzle. This is because the brain restructures itself in a certain way to make a challenge easily solvable, thus, adapting to a new environment. Although this feature of our brain is very useful for tasks that we have to do on a regular basis, such as driving a car or a motorcycle, the brain still needs new challenges to stay fresh and healthy!

Therefore, the more different mind games and brain exercises you subject your brain to, the more open you will be to solving problems in real life and to utilizing critical thinking. You will also be able to solve more and more problems faster. These mind games and mind puzzles are explicitly designed …

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