In today’s article, I will be told about brain rules to help you build better daily structure and be in control of your life our brain has limitless potential but to use its potential we have to better understand.
How it works and how we can improve it today we’ll take a look at the John made in this book called Brain Rules to learn the principles of surviving and trying in our life management and productivity also consider joining my free productivity
mastermind group where I live coaching calls and live cue nights where you have a chance to ask me any questions our brain is a sophisticated information processing system but for it to function properly we have to ensure that we look after it so
let’s take a look at some of the strategies that you can use to increase your brain processing capacity.
Your Brain Reacts to the Most Important Stimuli:
Once your brain reacts to the most important stimuli it is important to understand that our brain will always react to the things that it believes to be the most important but as we already know that is not always the case.
Imagine that you’re working on your latest blog post you’ve been focusing on for an hour and your energy levels start to sink your brain this kind of activity is not fun as it requires a lot of mental energy and then suddenly you hear the sound of a notification on your phone subconsciously you already know.
It is probably a distraction and you should keep focusing on your new blog post until it’s completed unfortunately your brain is not on your side and it starts to generate thoughts like what if it’s something important so you can’t resist it but to pick up the phone.
We also know how what usually ends as a quick one-minute reply to your friend turns into a 20-minute message exchange and once you have your phone in your hands you’re also exposed to all different temptations to check out your email or even social media.
This is the reason why removing all possible distractions is key if you want to stay productive because if you leave your phone around then your brain will make it the most important activity the brain’s selective focus is a bad thing if the brain wouldn’t be selective we would be overwhelmed with the hundreds of thoughts at any given
time and unable to focus on anything to take advantage of the brain-selective
focus we have to make sure that we create an environment that allows us to focus on the most important things for us.
Our Brain is Continuously Developing and Evolving:
our brain is continuously developing and evolving when we are born our brain is only
partially constructed the biggest development project continued until the early 20s and at this point, it started to slow down but that is not to say that development stops our brain keeps developing as long as we keep learning new things people can learn in their 60s
70s 80s and Beyond.
Warren Buffett is currently 89 years old and he still reads for about five hours every day so you have to make learning a daily habit something that you do all the time and always look for new opportunities to do even more when you go to conferences to listen to the talks you should be using break times to meet new people and make new connections when you’re driving from work to home or from home to work don’t.
Listen to the radio instead listen to some audiobook or podcast to learn something new if you want to watch something in the evening instead of watching the latest movie you could watch autobiographies of successful people to learn new things you had to be
continuously expanding your thinking and learning new things if you want your brain to develop and evolve.
How We Store and Remember Things:
How We Store and Remember Things 19th-century journal shall oh geez Hermann Ebbinghaus discovered that students usually forget about 90% of what has been learned in a class within 30 days.
But he also proved that students were able to remember information much better
when they are repeated over and over in regular intervals spaced intervals makes your brain think that the information that you’re repeating is important and therefore your brain will remember it another strategy that you can use to remember information better is attaching meaning or grouping the items.
Sometimes your brain does it subconsciously but sometimes we have to briefly attach meaning to remember things better for example when you go to the gym you know that you have to take a water bottle membership card and towel with you in this case you don’t think about each item but instead you think about what you will need to work out in the gym number for exercise.
Exercise to Increase Your Brainpower:
To increase your brainpower exercise allows your body to get more energy out of the food that you eat therefore exercise is highly recommended to increase your brainpower as your heart rate increases during exercise blood flow to the brain increases as well and blood flow increases your brain is exposed to more oxygen and nutrients excess also induces the release of beneficial proteins in the brain.
These nourishing proteins keep your brain cells healthy and promote the growth of new neurons on trapped in the thinking that you need to hit the gym six days a week any exercise that you will do will be better than doing nothing but it’s recommended to do some sort of exercise daily for 30 to 60 minutes.
Sleep benefits:
Sleep benefits Sleep is an incredibly important component if we want our brain to function to its full capacity sleep serves to re-energize the body cells clear waste from the brain and support learning and memory.
A study examined a group of soldiers, researchers kept the soldiers awake for one night and then ask them to take cognitive tests the following day one night’s sleep loss resulted in a 30 percent loss in overall cognitive skills whereas two sleepless nights resulted in a 60% decrease another study showed that if people got only six hours or less sleep a night for five nights the cognitive performance would decrease by 60% so while it’s important to get that one The last thing done before your bedtime it’s much better to invest that time in a good sleep.
Stress benefits:
Stress is the secret killer when it comes to your productivity because of the time we don’t feel its presence before it’s already too late stress can come from different sources and it might involve issues like health money and relationships.
You should be managing your stress as much as possible because stress can kill brain cells and even reduce the size of the brain remember that little stress can help you to take action while too much stress harms your brain and your overall health.