How to increase Your IQ – Understand the Principles (Part 1)

1.) Keep your Brain Challenges Fresh

Like every muscle in your body, if you want it to get stronger you have to work it out! Anything you do regularly enough that it becomes easy isn’t improving your brain any more than reaching for the TV remote builds up your muscles in your arm.

So if you’re doing Sudoku puzzles every day to train your mind but can breeze through them in 5 minutes flat, you aren’t pushing your brain. Once you’ve mastered a skill to the point of being comfortable it isn’t giving your brain any further benefit.  So find something difficult and work at it until you’ve become proficient it, and then move on and find something new.

2.) Make Experiencing New Things Part of Your Life

You don’t have to look for huge dramatic experiences to make a difference, the tiniest change will stimulate the brain to lay down new neural circuits by forming new connections.

Walk a different way to work, click your fingers on your other hand, try a food you’ve never had before, go to a new bar, watch a sport you don’t really understand the rules to.

If you do the same things over and over your brain knows where they fit into your life and so will simply use the same circuits and relationships it has already created. However every time you have a new experience your brain will have to put in effort to categorize it and build in fresh associations in your mind.

The more connections and association your mind can draw on the greater its problem solving ability. The more your brain gets used to having to work hard, the more it adapts and the greater raw processing power it gains.