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How to Improve your Intelligence?
A healthy brain is not only an important factor for social success, it has also an impact in the way we enjoy life, maintain a good relationship with our family and friends and overcome every day challenges. Just like everything, this amazing tool that we use for basic and complex daily tasks needs care to perform at its maximum potential.
Here are 10 tips that will help you improve the power of your brain.
1- Read and learn – I like to say that a book is an infinite universe in itself. Diving in somebody else’s ideas is a great way to nourish your mind and thoughts. All books have their values. But for a novel, I suggest an author that not only knows how to tell an interesting story, but can really use words to trigger emotion, imagination and questions. Also read to learn. Learning is like renovating an old apartment. You provide your brain with new tools, new concepts, new ideas, just like a growing baby.
2- Challenge your brain – Our brain is made of a very complex network of neurons. Challenges like brain teasers, puzzles or any problems that require deep logic thoughts to be solved, put at work unused and lazy neurons, forcing them to create other connections with other neurons, creating at the end shortcuts in your brain. You will be more and more comfortable finding solutions to complex problems.
 
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3- Unleash your creativity – You are more creative than you think you are. You just have to force it. The best way to do that is to free yourself from your usual straight forward perceptions. For example a match can be lit. It can also be put in your nostrils. Two matches can be a X. How many matches do I need to put together to go to the moon? A skinny man, dressed in white, with a red cap? Must be a match! Pay more attention to your craziest ideas.
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4- Write- Writing helps you give an external life to abstract ideas. It forces you to arrange and discipline frivolous thoughts. This will make you more comfortable in the way you categorize ideas and thoughts. It increases your logic and judgment. When I say writing, I don’t mean writing books. It’s just for example taking notes in a diary, writing simple paragraphs where you group and link different thoughts.
5- Sleep- Proper sleeping habits will be beneficial for your mental health. Sleep early and wake up early. Don’t sleep for more than 8 hours. In the middle of the day each time you can take a 10 - 15 minutes nap.
6- Exercise – Controlled physical activities are not only good for your body but also for your brain. Your hearth at that time provides to your brain a more consistent supply of oxygen. This will relax you, dismiss negative stresses that block your concentration.
7- Practice relaxation - In the morning or before sleeping or at any time where you can find loneliness and peace, sit or lay down on the floor, close your eyes, breathe calmly. Focus on anything thing that inspires you or any object that just inspires nothing. Focus. Don’t let your mind wander around. At some point you can also review all the things you have seen or heard during the day. Remind yourself of strangers you have seen on the bus or in the street. This is a good way to improve your memory.
8- Eat brain food - Essential nutrients for the brain are carbohydrate (fruits, grains, and vegetables), omega-3 (salmon, sardines, trout, anchovies), protein (milk, meat, cheese), Acetylcholine (egg, milk, peanuts, liver, fish and vegetables like broccoli and cabbage), Dopamine (meat, fish, milk, cheese, beans, soy), Serotonin (cereals, breads, potatoes).
9 - Be optimistic – I think that the greatest force in human nature is the will. Believing that you can do something or that you can reach your goal will tremendously boost your brain. Even when obstacles will be in your way, you will be constantly searching for new solutions. Don’t underestimate this last point in my list. Most successful people have this in common.
Writer: Mikelson Toussaint (http://www.youpeez.com/)
词汇学习:
1. intelligence 智慧
2. overcome 战胜，克服
3. tool 工具
4. potential 潜力
5. infinite 无限的
6. universe 宇宙
7. dive 探究；跳水
8. nourish 滋养
9. thoughts （名词）思考；想法
10. novel （长篇）小说
11. trigger 触发，引起
12. emotion 情感
13. renovate 更新；修理
14. neuron 神经细胞
15. brain teaser （考你头脑的）难题；谜
16. puzzle （游戏的）猜谜；智力竞赛
17. unleash 解除...的束缚
18. free （动词）使自由；解放
19. perception 观念；看法；洞察力
20. match 火柴
21. lit = ‘light’ 的 Simple Past 和 Past Participle；can be lit = 可以被点燃
22. nostril 鼻孔
23. skinny 极瘦的
24. cap 无边便帽；制服帽
25. abstract 抽象的；深奥的
26. force （动词）迫使
27. discipline （动词）使有纪律；训练
28. frivolous 琐碎的；无聊的
29. categorize 将。。分类
30. group （动词）把。。分组
31. proper 适合的，适当的
32. mental 智力的，脑力的
33. nap 午睡，小睡
34. physical activity 身体的活动
35. brain 头脑
36. consistent supply 一致，连贯的供给
37. dismiss 让。。离开
38. stress 压力
39. breathe 呼吸
40. inspire 给。。灵感 / 启示
41. object 物体；对象
42. wander 失神；漫游
43. review 回顾
44. grain 谷类
45. trout 鳟鱼
46. anchovy 公鱼仔
47. liver 肝脏
48. force 力量
49. human nature 人性
50. will 意志，毅力
51. tremendously 极大的
52. boost 推动，促进
53. obstacle 障碍物
54. constantly 不断的
55. solution 解决办法
56. underestimate 低估
** 学习新词汇的当儿，请大家多注意作者如何运用以上的词汇，
这样才能达到灵活运用的效果。
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How to Improve your Intelligence?
