28 Simple Ways to Become Smarter

Scientists from the University of Virginia found that as early as 27 years in the work of the brain begin interruptions to 37 - the memory deteriorates significantly.

Then we read did not, fearing to lose precious time. This article contains all you need for an emergency rescue your brain, its maintenance and development. From now on a silly question, "You are not too tight cap?" You will be responsible not only kicked in the kneecap, but reasonable "Now - too tight."

• 1.Read more.

The more complex and unusual book will be, the better. Sophisticated design, long, detailed proposals, rare words, abstruse articles from our magazine and especially poetry - the real Cogitum for your brain.

• 2.Drummed on the table.

Better yet, take a rule to accompany hear music: knee, cover the table or the tom-toms freshly bought - it does not matter. Hand or chopsticks. Neyro¬biolog Anerood Patel from San Diego said that the sense of rhythm plays an important role in learning. After him meet the basal ganglia - lobe of the brain involved in motor function.

• 3.Listen to classical music.

Especially Mozart. In 1995, psychologist Frances Rauscher ruse lured into the room thirty rats. Two months there periodically sounded Sonata for Two Pianos in C major. After the experiment, it was found out that the animals are not only the best dance, but also to run a maze faster and with fewer errors than another group of rats lived two months in silence.

• 4.Train your memory.

In London, taxi drivers, for example, increased the hippocampus - part of the brain responsible for emotions and memory. What are you worse?

■ Place bookmark brainscale site. There you will find one of the following tasks «N ago", developed in 1958 for research and stimulating the activity of certain brain areas, the development of working memory, logical thinking and ability to concentration of attention. Try to take the test on a daily basis, allocated to it a few minutes earlier in the day and the same in the end. According to research conducted in 2008 by Suzanne Yeggi, regular training in this task are able to significantly develop mobile intelligence, to expand the work of human memory, improve logical thinking and ability to concentrate.

■ your list of products that need to buy, re-read it several times and try not to remember their names, and their future path in different departments in the store. Gathering all in the cart and stood in the queue, try to calculate the total amount of the mind. If it would be true then, you can buy yourself a reward bush spinach: it is good for the memory.

■ Daily stand out half an hour memorizing poems. Last time you did that in kindergarten, but all the words flew out of your head at the moment when the official part of the holiday is over and the coffin was lowered into the ground. The content of the poems does not matter.

• 5.Have some coffee.

Caffeine stimulates the release of neurotransmitters dopamine and noradrenalin - they help longer remain in good shape and maintain concentration. It is important not to overdo it: from very large doses of caffeine you hornier and will not be able to think rationally. Caffeine in doses of 300 mg (four cups of organic coffee) per day will present the state of anxiety, headache, tremor, arrhythmia.

• 6.Albert Einstein…

A theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate:

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. Knowing where to find information and how to use it - that's the secret of success. The mind, once expanded its borders, will never return to the old. Personalities are not shaped by beautiful speeches, and his own work and its results. "

• 7.Marcus Porcius Cato

Elder statesman, writer:

"A wise man learns from the greater fools than fools - the wise."

• 8.Play chess, checkers and poker.

These games not only can make you richer, but also perfectly develop thinking. If you think that you play chess very well, try to play more and at a time to the decision it took less than a minute.

• 9.Develop your sense of numerical thinking

Yes, you already have that. Fished from his pocket a handful of change, briefly look at it and try from memory to calculate the total amount. Veronique Izgard, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard, found that due to meet the ancient structures of the brain, age, something about billiards years (this number is? We have bad with this), but they can develop throughout life. To check how your HH developed at the moment, pass a short test or a large-scale test, the results of which even remain in the annals of American University and will help move forward the science. Well and further - to develop HH. The easiest way - packing things into a bag. When you figure out how to cram them better, your brain to solve complex problems and trains.

• 10.Feed the brain's right!

Especially if you still can not tell until the end of a single poem from the school curriculum, and for birthdays remind you familiar with Facebook.

■ Walnuts. Almost the main food for the scholar! They even look like a brain. Five nuts a day - and you'll be provided with lecithin improves brain function and memory is activated. Once the nuts are useful if you suddenly live in a high radiation environment.

■ Fish. Terse and cold, it is rich in iodine, its meat contains omega-3, providing a rapid influx of energy necessary for the transmission of impulses in the brain cells. They regulate blood cholesterol levels and improve the performance of the vessels. If you're going to eat at least 100 grams of fish per day, you will increase the reaction rate, and you reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

■ Pumpkin seeds. Emptying half a cup in his jacket pocket, and during office scandals improves memory and causes the brain to think faster. All thanks to zinc.

■ Spinach. Adds it to the morning scrambled eggs two or three times a week. Contained in spinach lutein protects brain cells from premature aging.

■ Sage. The Johns Hopkins University found that sage inhibits the action of amino acids responsible for memory impairment. Now there is a daily drink tea with sage and remember everything about everyone.

• 11.Try to guess the phrase interlocutor.

Rebecca Seyks MIT believes that with proper training of people will be able to understand others and even without words - the words of a person, look and other similar features. It is responsible for this section of the brain, which is located behind the right ear and is responsible for intuition.

• 12.Start a blog.

Telling him about the events of the day, you will not only learn to articulate thoughts, but you will constantly think of new topics and caustic responses to the questions devoted readers.

• 13.Koichi Tohei ...

Writer, aikido master, the owner of the 10-th Dan, founder of the Society cues ki-aikido-style:

"Reading - the cornerstone of the intellect. Fill your spare time reading all kinds of books. Read novels, nonfiction, biography. Please browse through the book quickly to make up for her overall performance. If you feel that it makes sense, read it again. As a result, your brain will increase the ability to adapt to different circumstances, and organize a wide variety of data. "

• 14.Solve crosswords.

Surprisingly, this effect: brain healthy spur serious crosswords.

• 15.Doctor Doping

"Someone said that if the school he bad solved math problems or something in a similar way - it means that he is smart and will remain so forever. This is utter nonsense. If in 18 years to pump up the muscles themselves, and then lie down on the couch and forget about them, then very soon they will atrophy. And with the efficiency of the brain the same thing happens. "

• 16.Learn a foreign language.

Andrea Mechelli, Doctor of Neurology, University of London, argues that people who know several foreign languages, it is easier to switch between different mental tasks. An additional impetus to the development of your brain will give a new way to learn foreign words unintelligible.

■ For example, the study of the language with parallel translation. On the site you will find get parallel translations book, the pages of which are located both English and Russian texts. In fact, these are the same titles, which you love so much watch fresh series.

■ Slovak web developer believes that words need to be taught before they meet you in the book. Surprised by its board, you have to feed the stranger words from text service, it is in response to generate a list of the most used words and will offer you mention it to strangers. They can be printed on request with the translation, memorize and already fully prepared to pounce on unsuspecting literature anything.

• 17.Set yourself a smart application.

Feeling uncomfortable surge too rapidly growing brain, we have buried in the screens of mobile phones, hoping to find salvation in some mind-numbing game. But what is it? And on mobile devices not step a step from the domination of developmental programs!

The simulator memory. Successively stored pressing the colored buttons and repeat them. In fact, it's the same problem «N back," disguised as a game.

Einstein. Workout for the mind. HD-collection of 30 exercises for the development of logic, memory, and attention to the account.

Brain Genius. A variant on the logical problems created, according to legend, Einstein on the reluctance to go to kindergarten.

• 18.Do not lose time

If the work had a free minute, and you want to see a couple of meters of funny pictures, better to open Wikipedia and read the "accidental" article.

• 19.Walk

Suffice it to three times a week for half an hour to parade around the house to 15% better to concentrate, to learn and to think abstractly. And it's not only the flow of oxygen to your moribund in office stuffiness neurons: Scientists from the Salk Institute have shown that moderate exercise in the open air causes the brain to build new cells.

• 20.Let the brain rest.

Whatever you may be engaged in the process of mental activity is required to rest every hour and a half. For example, to do simple physical exercises, or just walk down the hall and have a cup of coffee. Considers it necessary. Since the analytical centers of the brain better digest the accumulated information and come to some surprising conclusion.

• 21.Awake your brain.

If you ignored all our advice, and tomorrow the finals of the championship, "What? Where? When? "League classmates, there is another way to shake the fat on brain convolutions.

■ Extra help raise IQ neurometabolic stimulants, they also nootropics - means providing an activating effect on memory and mental performance. Note: completely legitimate. Keywords in the drugstore are: Phenotropil, Cetirizine, Allertec, Deprenyl. Even you can try Phenibutum, but it, in contrast to previous preparations to drink a course in 2-3 weeks, one-time use of the proper result will not. And it has to be here way: lack of desire to drop everything and go to sleep, increased reaction rate, mild irritability and a feeling that you're smarter than everyone around. There are, however, a small problem. "Nootropics action on the brain is not yet fully examined," - said Head of the Laboratory of Neurobiology of memory Institute of Normal Physiology RAMS Konstantin Anokhin. And another thing: do not confuse with nootropics supplements. These also make you smarter at the time, but they act differently, and the effect they have weaker. It is, for instance, ginkgo biloba, Guarana, Siberian ginseng and ginseng root.

• 22.Play "Tetris".

A study by American scientists showed that this classic puzzle can have a positive impact on the development of the human brain. Testing confirmed that the regular practice of playing "Tetris" can increase the volume of gray matter in the brain of the player and improve his ability to think. The brain of people who in the course of the experiment for three months playing in this puzzle game for half an hour a day, has undergone changes in areas associated with movement, critical thinking, reasoning, language and processing information.

• 23.Leonardo da Vinci ...

The artist, inventor, scientist, writer:

"Iron rusts, not finding a use stagnant water rots or freezes in the cold, and the human mind is wasting away."

• 24.Anatoly Wasserman ...

Journalist, political consultant:

"Read and see more, try to find connections and similarities between different knowledge - and pretty soon will feel what worth are still gaps to fill in order to understand more. Without intelligence all the rest is just useless. Being smart is not only fashionable, but also very nice. In my experience, it is best to remember that interested. Be curious - and easily remember all that would be interesting. But in order to save memory, it is necessary to work actively to have wide interests. Then much will be stored, and the memory is a reliable support. "

• 25.Sleep well

It is during sleep the brain processes information collected per day and generates memories. How to estimate the University of California at Berkeley officers, usually adult enough for 6 to 8 hours of sleep.

• 26.Read in new ways.

Of course, you already scanned this advice and went to the next. Try to come back and do this.

■ Take a pencil and, leading them to a line, read text. Eye catching movement, will run for the pointer reading with everything you slipped him. Every time accelerating the movement of a pencil - so your eyes get used to the increased load, the reading speed will increase and you will be able to absorb information faster.

■ 80% of the people reading mentally recite the words. you acquired this habit, learning to read: pronounce the text letter by letter, then by syllables, and then put them into words. But to understand this is not necessary. To combat with inner voice, learn to read the text at the same time counting to thirty or singing (you can without words) song. A week or two you will not understand the content of the text, but gradually everything returns to normal.

■ According to physiologists, a person who sees something exciting, reflexively dilate the pupils. When you reach the interesting places in the text, there is the same: the pupil dilates, the eye gets more light, and hence the greater the amount of information he can catch. The only problem is how to make yourself believe that lies in front of you in the same investigation report is interesting, as the interview with the girl on the cover. From the standpoint Neurophysiological interest occurs when the brain compares the new information with the existing memory. So just assume that it can be written in the text. The brain has to be compared with real information, and willy-nilly - take an interest.

• 27.Get yourself an unusual hobby.

New activities, according to the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego suburb, in the first place, great help to escape from the routine, and secondly, will force your brain to adapt to an unfamiliar activity for him and, consequently, practice.

• 28.Alan Weiss

President of the Union of Health NCH:

"When you are completely immersed in the game world, your brain focuses on solving urgent problems. He is looking for unusual solutions and outs of the unusual in everyday life situations. Later, these same ideas can be useful to you in real life, at work or in communication. "