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Added Aug 15, 2019 •

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what determines our intelligence one school of thought is that okay maybe you're either just born with it or you either have it or you don't some people are smart some people are less smart or maybe you can change it that turns out there's actually a lot of research on this in the last few decades and the answer is pretty clear that your intelligence can actually be changed what we've learned what researchers have taught us is that our brains are actually a lot like a muscle weight so that you can grow your muscles by going to the gym and doing exercise and straining your muscles you don't just work on things that are easy for your muscles to do you do things that your muscles have to struggle with us trade with and then they rebuild themselves they come back stronger by struggling it's a it's a sick to your body to devote more resources to that part of the body that we see that exact same with the brain and here just a couple of examples of it this first one this is this is this shows how the human brain develops in early childhood this is a depiction of of the neurons in the brain at Birth over as a child develops it it interacts with its environment it try sings out its struggles it struggles to to talk to converged interact with folks to understand the world around it and as it struggles you see that by age 6 you have a much deeper and much stronger connectedness between the different neurons similarly similarly I can never say that word these are depictions of this is these are the neurons are two different scenarios this is the the nerves of of animals that were a nun stimulating environments where they're not around other other animals there in a barricade and this is this is the brain of an animal is in a stimulating environment that is constantly being challenged constantly looking at stimulating you things that's what the big take away from this whole area of research is you absolutely can change your intelligence that your brain is like a muscle the more you use it the stronger gets at at the best way to listen to do things that are easy for you that might help a little bit but what really helps your brain is when you struggle with things as actually research shows that your brain grows the most not when you get a question right but when you get a question wrong at least for me this is incredibly exciting because it lets me know that when I'm going through something and I'm facing those times of old maybe a little bit of adversity or a little bit of frustration I can I can I can feel good about the fact that I am growing the most has this isn't just something that I'm saying nice words research tells us when you get something wrong when you challenge your brain when you review why you got it wrong when you really process that feedback that's when your brain grows the most if you keep doing that you're well on your way a stronger more able and I guess you could say smarter brain

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