Analysis: You Can Grow Your Brain

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Exercise Your Brain There is a wrong perception about sagacity; many people believe that they are born with some degree of intelligence that is unchangeable and cannot be improved throughout their lives. A person may think that he or she is either smart or not; people who believe that they are not smart enough in certain areas will give up learning and will not try to improve those weak spots. They think that their brain is fixed in a certain way that prevents them from learning; therefore, they are incapable of learning. We all heard a person says, “I do not have the brain to learn math and have given up learning it.” People are not aware that they can improve and expand their intelligence level.
The article, “You Can Grow Your Brain,” from Health and Science compares the development of the brain to a muscle. Muscles strength will not happen overnight, and rather, they would be built up over the time and by the right continuous exercises. However, when the person stops practicing muscles will reduce their sizes and strength. The same fact is true about the brain; the brain can be empowered when a person practices, uses decent plans, and learns new things. The more the mind is challenged, the more the brain will grow; consequently, the stuff that they were hard to comprehend at some point will become easy and understandable.
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If a person employs the same old strategies that he or she was using before, there will be no improvements, and performance will become stagnant. When a person is learning new skills, the growth is steady until the person reaches his or her best performance and from that point, there will be no significant improvements. Dr. Gawande, a surgeon, in his article “Personal Best” illustrates how his performance through the steady process of learning improved and reached its peak; however, there was no enhancement after