Hey!! Stop for a moment, think about your cognitive fitness, where is it headed?đś
A lot of people hardly care about their cognitive fitness(Awnn!! poor cognitive fitness, if only they knew how important you were, they won't neglect you), yet they give so much attention to their body fitness (yeah, there you go, the perfect body but a broken mind). The truth is, once the mind gives up on the body, what can the poor body do, it has no mama to run to, the mother of the body is the mind. Do the needful!!! Better start giving that mother some food so that the babies will be well taken care of.
As a matter of fact, the only reason why you have given so much attention to your body is that you know the benefit and you are motivated to gain those associated benefits and that is thanks to who? Your mind, so, therefore, give it some attention. The fact that you have decided to look good is because your mind recognizes what is good and has made up its mind (Yes, the mind has made up its mind) to go for it.
We live in a world where people are immediately judged by their exterior, so much for âdonât judge a book by its coverâ in my opinion more than 80% of people know this and yet succumb to the bandwagon effect. Of fact, we mostly see people before they utter a word, unfortunately, by then we have done a general assessment of them and we have finally made one or a series of illogical conclusions or the other. I was introduced to the hive world by none other than 
There is a difference between having genius level high IQ and being fit cognitively. look at it this way, I make sure I am physically fit by doing what? exercising, yes even those with a naturally athletic body type still go the extra mile to remain fit, that because being fit goes beyond having a nice body and looking all good physically, likewise being fit cognitively goes beyond having a high IQ naturally, and even though you can improve your IQ by building your cognition, a naturally high IQ doesnât mean you are cognitively fit (think about it, you cannot be naturally fit, you have gotta work for it). On a scale of 1-10, how is your cardiovascular fitness, how much can you endure? Build your cognitive fitness by building the cardiovascular endurance (a figure speech) of your mind and maintain that cognitive fitness by strengthening what needs to be strengthened (We definitely all have one or two weaknesses in our cognition) and increasing the flexibility of what might seem to be stiff as regarding your cognition.
So how the hell do we start building our cognitive fitness?
Stimulate the part of your brain that helps you learn a different language, that part of your brain has been left under stimulated for far too long language-wise, why? Simply because you have been speaking the same language for as long as that brain can remember, spice it up, make it feel something new, a new word or sentence structure , something that gets it out of its comfort zone. Learn a new language, speak a new language and let your cognition thank you for it.
Learn a new sport; different sports stimulate different sections of the brain, you donât want to miss out on cognitive building. Basketball will definitely stimulate the part of the brain that is responsible for eye to hand coordination and spatial awareness just as soccer will stimulate the part of your brain responsible for eye to feet or leg coordination, either way, learning a new sport will definitely build something just by stimulation the required brain section.
Explore new areas; there are more than 150 countries in the world let alone states, if you cant leave your country try to explore a different state within your country, a change of scenery and route to your destination does wonders. Explore new locations, try out new routes and keep that cognition ever fit
Try out a new instrument, who knows, you might end up finding that one instrument in which you are really good at and you donât have to try so hard.
One thing is definitely clear, being cognitively fit is all connected to learning something new. Our brain usually learns to follow routines and of course that makes it more efficient in performing some task but there is a letdown, repeated activities makes it under stimulated causing it to build more of muscle memory making it focus more on a particular section of the brain and neglecting others. Trying new things on a daily basis will definitely change the way your brain operates making it somewhat ready for something new, a kind of mental alertness, a positive feedback.
Research tells us that the risk of Alzheimer's disease in the last quarter of human life can be greatly reduced by frequent cognitively stimulating activities. Now, that should be enough motivation for someone who is open to motivation. Your cognitive fitness should be as important as your body fitness, it shouldnât be just about staying alive besides, what worth is an extended lifespan with an unfit brain, sound like an horror movie that ran for too long.
Donât think just about eating more of vegetables,hydrating and cutting sugar, that brain also has a stomach (metaphorically), feed it and let it grow.
Thanks for deciding to stimulate your brain cells by reading this post, Sayonaraâď¸
See you in my next post most likely on The relationship between blood pressure and money
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