Some people are workaholics and playaholics. They deprive themselves of sleep while they prioritise work and play time. Life is a rat race.
No matter how much time you try to squeeze out of one day, you may not get things done efficiently, if your brain is not working well.
Babies sleep almost all the time to grow their bodies and brains. They grow until early adulthood, with their brains developing neural networks to multitask.
A clever army is to be reckoned with so one of the military strategies is to exhaust the enemy. The deprivation of sleep is a weapon.
Neighbors from hell also use the simple strategy of talking loudly in the wee hours of the morning, to wake up other households, from 2 am to 7 am. Without sufficient sleep, humans can’t stay awake or function properly. The talkative noise makers themselves sleep during the day, to replenish their energy and snooze time.
A healthy body facilitates thinking. A sick body would slow down to sleep. Then, your brain may think but it is more difficult to communicate the thoughts to your consciousness.
How do you keep your brain active? If you exercise your body, do you exercise your brain? Exercise improves blood circulation and this sends more blood and at a faster pace, to the head, throughout the body, and down to the toes.
There have been many studies and research on exercise and its impact on brains. Cognition (basic thinking skills) has the most scope for improvement, with exercise. Next comes memory and the slower and smaller improvement comes from executive function (secondary and more complicated thinking skills).
The graphs serve to illustrate the points mentioned.
Cognition can be improved by the most, in comparison to memory and executive (complex) functioning.
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Kids can have the most gains in memory cells, and their capacity to grow these decreases as they grow into teenagers, and then adults.
Sleep and exercise are important for the body and brain. These two conditions are essential for efficient thinking and performance skills.
Learning and thinking do not stop after you leave school/ college/ university. You can self-educate by reading non-fiction books in may disciplines. Some intelligent people do not restrict themselves to one field, but study in a variety of different disciplines, before deciding to work in one. Your knowledge from a varied background can help you think better.
How to improve your thinking skills?
The chart below is the gist of 5 factors which can help you improve your thought process.
- Educate yourself by reading in multiple disciplines. Some fields share common traits and their characteristics intersect at common points. That’s why many people study different fields at different levels, to enrich their knowledge and work better.
- You learn more methods of dealing with issues when you are open to ideas. There is not just one solution to a problem. There can be more solutions, albeit in differing ways.
- You can learn from different people too, not just formal knowledge in media. People from all walks of life can share their valuable practical experiences and expertise. They can be more efficient than technical experts because they are like cooks who have tasted their own broth while cooking. Workers who follow designs, blueprints and traditional instructions may not have tested their products in practical life and lack knowledge of functional deficiencies.
- You are not just a sponge in absorbing knowledge. You have to use your knowledge. You need free time to consider and mull over ideas.
- When you have decided what you want to do, either in work, hobby or intangibles like relationships, you should concentrate on your desired focus. Like the old proverb says, “a Jack of all trades is a master of none”.
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