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The Powers of the Mind

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

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What’s in your Brain?

Brainpower: complex organ controls your every thought and move

The adolescent’s years are a time of extreme brain changes.
The section of the brain that regulates impulses and employs long term perspective, the frontal lobes, develops later.
This explains why teenagers in mid-adolescence take more risks than older teenagers

Parts and Functions of the Brain

Two hemisphere and their functions

The real truth about “Smart” and “Dumb”

No one thinks babies are stupid because they can’t talk. They just haven’t learned how to yet. But some people will call a person dumb if they can’t solve math problems, or spell a word right, or read fast—even though all these things are learned with practice.
At first, no one can read or solve equations. But with practice, they can learn to do it. And the more a person learns, the easier it gets to learn new things—because their brain “muscles” have gotten stronger!
The students everyone thinks as the “smartest” may not have been born any different from anyone else. But before they started school, they may have started to practice reading.
They had already started to build up their “reading muscles.” Then, in the classroom, everyone said,
“That’s the smartest student in the class.” They don’t realize that any of the other students could learn to do as well if they exercised and practiced reading as much.
Remember, all those other students learned to speak at least one whole language already—something that grownups find very hard to do.
They just need to build up their “reading muscles” too.

What can you do to get smarter?