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    Raise your IQ – start a hobby.

    Team Career PlanetBy Team Career PlanetUpdated:No Comments3 Mins Read
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    It has always been assumed that intelligence is simply something you’re born with. But new scientific research has shown that you can increase your Intelligence Quotient (IQ) by doing the following fun things:

    Play a Musical Instrument

    When you play a musical instrument, certain parts of your brain are stimulated as you memorize the notes, use your hands, and feel the music.

    As you do these simultaneously, you are also developing your motor skills, analytical skills, memory, and creativity. According to scientists, these activities improve how your brain functions regardless of how old you are.

    Read Anything

    The benefits of reading are the same no matter what genre you’re reading. Reading increases the three types of intelligence: crystallized, fluid, and emotional. Crystallized intelligence improves your problem solving. Fluid intelligence is responsible for putting together the different pieces of knowledge you accumulate every day.

    Emotional intelligence helps you accurately interpret events so that you can accurately respond to other people’s feelings.

    Be Creative

    Painting boosts memory recollection skills and works to sharpen the mind through conceptual visualisation and implementation. People who frequently use creative outlets such as writing, painting, and drawing have less chance of developing memory loss illnesses when they get older

    Exercise Regularly

    When you exercise regularly, you help your body produce BDNF genes that are responsible for creating a type of protein in the brain and the spinal cord. These genes play a vital role in the growth and maintenance of your cells. If your body is healthy at the cellular level, your productivity and efficiency improves.

    Learn a New Language

    If you want to improve your analytical and puzzle solving skills, study a new language. Research has shown that people who are bilingual are better at solving puzzles than people who are monolingual. If you can learn a new language successfully, your brain also gets better at performing any mentally demanding tasks, such as planning and problem-solving.

    Exercise Your Brain

    When you solve crossword puzzles, brain teasers, or Sudoku, the neuroplasticity of your brain improves. Neuroplasticity is the ability of our brain to reorganize its neural pathways and synaptic connections. As we become aware of these new patterns, our cognitive abilities also improve. Aside from improving our cognitive skills, increased neuroplasticity makes us less prone to mental disorders such as anxiety and depression.

    Meditate

    A study by Richard Dawkins in 1992, using monks as subjects, has suggested that we can control our brainwaves and command them according to how we want to function. This is why it has become trendy lately for successful people to meditate.

    We can become more confident and powerful during business deals and negotiations, allowing us to be more convincing to our listeners and audience.

    Cook Different Meals

    When you plan your meals and cook different kinds of food, you are unleashing your creativity. It also improves your focus as you pay more attention to details while you’re cooking. Moreover, it makes you even more mindful of what you feed yourself.

    Start today

    Hobbies are not there just to kill your boredom. They make you smarter because they stimulate your brain. So start a new hobby now and increase your brain power.

    Source: www.influencive.com

     

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