Do you want to increase your brain power? If you do, you have to remember it cannot be achieved overnight, but you can get quick results if you work on it regularly. Building your brain power is a lot like building your muscles ñ you need to ìwork outî your brain frequently if you want it to get bigger and stronger.
Brain power strategies
Here are some brain building strategies to start you off on the right track.
Play games and solve puzzles ñ Current researches have pointed out that games can be quite effective in stimulating and challenging the human mind. Apart from video games and more conventional games such as chess, you can also try solving puzzles (crosswords, Sudoku, and others).
The more challenging the game, the more your brain works to find solutions for you. And when the brain is challenged, it creates new neural connections to adapt to the increased need to process complicated information. There are many gaming consoles on the market that offer excellent puzzles games. Choose a gaming console that you think would be the most enjoyable for you.
Try being two-handed ñ Normally, people work with just one dominant hand. Thatís why people are called ìleft handedî or ìright handed.î This is done largely out of convenience. People can actually become ambidextrous. Both hands can be used for drawing, writing, etc. Try teaching yourself to become two-handed. Youíd surprised how hard the brain will work to ìteachî your other hand the tasks that were relegated to your dominant hand. Even if you donít succeed immediately, the important thing is that you are constantly trying to learn something new.
Enjoy and appreciate ambiguities ñ Too often, people stick to their comfort zones in terms of food, clothing, and even in the things that they pay attention to. Step out of your mental comfort zone and seek out things that are completely out of this world. For example, try reading more fiction books to widen your creative horizons. Embrace the strange and try to learn from new experiences.
Mind mapping matters ñ Mind mapping can be extremely useful for individuals who have a lot of trouble organizing their thoughts and ideas. Mind maps are just diagrams used to connect multitudes of ideas to each other. Itís a way to express oneself and organize oneís ideas at the same time.
The best thing about mind maps is you can easily modify it whenever you feel that a cluster of ideas isnít working for you anymore. Just erase the clusters to remove them. With mind maps, you can also connect smaller clusters of ideas to other headlines and sub sections.
In the end, you can connect ten or twenty ideas easily, and follow through with what you were planning, originally. For example, if you were planning to build a new boat, you can use a mind map to make sure that you will be able to tackle all of the parts of the boat (with their corresponding materials and tools).
