The benefits of this lesson will help you create positive mental attitudes that will stay with you for
the rest of your life.
You might think that exercising your brain requires work and you are right.
I call the following activities brain builders.
They represent the entire process of building a new neural grove and new networks of neurons being constructed
by a conscious choice to build them.
If you want to develop new neurons and wire in more brain power here are just a few examples of the
kinds of things you should consider.
Don't worry you will get a full list of new activities to start with detailed explanations in the resource
section of this lesson.
You might start to learn to play a musical instrument or design a new tile pattern for the bathroom.
You might join an astronomy club or master the Rubik's Cube or drive on a completely different road
to a place you've never been before which Shakspeare will learn to ride with your other hand.
What do all of those activities have in common.
Each of them will rewire your brain.
Each of them will inspire and grow your brain.
If you were given the challenge to come up with 100 activities that will help you why bring what would
be the three most important activities for you when choosing these brain builders.
I suggest you have three things in your mind that you actively participate with for a highly focused
interest in the activity.
Over a period of time that you repeat each new learned activity frequently and regularly that you stay
with it and keep doing it.
Some thought patterns repeated frequently enough will create new in your path in days and hours in weeks.
How long it will take for you to wire your brain in positive new ways will depend in large part on how
much attention you give it.
Some wiring happens rapidly memorizing a two digit number and storing it for life can be done in a matter
of minutes intensely playing a high action video game can change the neural wiring in your brain or
your child's brain in a matter of a few hours.
How long does it take to grow a garden.
It depends on what you plant.
How much nutrition and sunshine it receives.
How nature works and how much attention you give it.
The popular ideas on the subject that it takes 21 days or 30 days where 66 days to rewire a new program
into your brain are not the final answer.
How long it takes to wire in a new in your pathway will depend on the importance of the message and
the amount of mindfulness decision in Taschen of focus repetition emotion and belief that do commit
to the new program to get started.
Your first goal should be to work at the activities for no less than 90 days by the end of the first
short gold period.
You should begin to see the kind of results that will keep you with it and go for more.
Whatever your age it's time to start using brain builders.
Let me give you a personal example.
Some years ago I focused on the incredible opportunity each of us has to do many exciting new things
to find to live honestly more interesting and to keep our brains functioning at a sharper healthier
level as a result.
So as an example one brain builder I decided to tackle was to learn to ride with my right hand.
I'm left handed.
I had wanted to learn pottery so I decided to add taking formal pottery classes to the list.
I also decided to study the architecture of medieval European cathedrals and began practicing kung fu.
The reason I chose each of this particular neuron builders was that each of them requires practice and
dedication.
Each of them all three words and positive gratification and each of them is an ongoing challenge.
You may do well but you can always get closer to perfection.
I had never written with my right hand and every pen stroke would be a new and your experience in my
brain.
Formally learning pottery would tie hand finger muscle coordination to neural pathways in my brain that
had previously not been formed.
I knew that learning the details of how medieval cathedrals were built would tax both my right brained
imagination and my left brain detail and analytical thinking.
Practicing kung fu is both mental and physical practice.
That is excellent for general health as well as creating new brain cells.
Now it's your turn.
Start a list with about 20 new activities to practice in the next lesson.
You gather seven requirements to consider when choosing the top three new activities.
So let's start.