15 simple ways to become smarter ☺

1. read more.

The more complex and unusual book will be, the better. Sophisticated design, long, detailed proposals, rare words, abstruse articles from our magazine and especially poetry - the real "Rastishka" for your brain.

2. drummed on the table.

Better yet, take a rule to accompany hear music: knee, cover the table or the tom-toms freshly bought - it does not matter. Hand or chopsticks. Neyro¬biolog Anerood Patel from San Diego said that the sense of rhythm plays an important role in learning. After him meet the basal ganglia - lobe of the brain involved in motor function.

3. Listen to classical music.

Especially Mozart. In 1995, psychologist Frances Rauscher ruse lured into the room thirty rats. Two months there periodically sounded Sonata for Two Pianos in C major. After the experiment, it was found out that the animals are not only the best dance, but also to run a maze faster and with fewer errors than another group of rats lived two months in silence.

4. Train your memory.

In London taxi drivers, for example, increased the hippocampus - part of the brain responsible for emotions and memory. What are you worse?

■ Place bookmark brainscale site. There you will find one of the following tasks «N ago", developed in 1958 for research and stimulating the activity of certain brain areas, the development of working memory, logical thinking and ability to kontsent¬ratsii attention. Try to take the test on a daily basis, allocated to it a few minutes earlier in the day and the same in the end. According to research conducted in 2008 by Suzanne Yeggi, regular training in this task are able to significantly develop mobile intelligence, extend the working person's memory, improve logical thinking and ability to concentrate.

■ your list of products that need to buy, re-read it several times and try not to remember their names, and their future path in different departments in the store. After collecting all the truck and stood in the queue, try to mentally calculate the total amount. If it would be true then, you can buy yourself a reward bush spinach: it is good for the memory. More useful to Psychology

■ Daily stand out half an hour memorizing poems. Last time you did that in kindergarten, but all the words flew out of your head at the moment when the official part of the holiday is over and the coffin was lowered into the ground. The content of the poems does not matter.

5. Have some coffee.

Caffeine stimulates the release of neurotransmitters dopamine and nor¬adrenalina - they help longer remain in good shape and maintain concentration. It is important not to overdo it: from very large doses of caffeine you hornier and will not be able to think rationally. Caffeine in doses of 300 mg (four cups of organic coffee) per day will present the state of anxiety, headache, tremor, arrhythmia.

6. Albert Einstein ...

A theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate:

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death. Knowing where to find information and how to use it - that's the secret of success. The mind, once expanded its borders, will never return to the old. Personalities are not shaped by beautiful speeches, and his own work and its results. "

7. Cato ...

Elder statesman, writer:

"A wise man learns from the greater fools than fools - the wise."

8. Play a game of chess, checkers and poker.

These games not only can make you richer, but also perfectly develop thinking. If you think that you play chess very well, try to play more and at a time to the decision it took less than a minute.

9. Cultivate your sense of numerical.

Yes, you already have that. Fished from his pocket a handful of change, briefly look at it and try from memory to calculate the total amount. Veronique Izgard, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard, found that due to meet the ancient structures of the brain, age, something about kvaziliona years (this number is? We have bad with this), but they can develop throughout life. To check how your HH developed at the moment, pass a short test or a large-scale test, the results of which even remain in the annals of American University and will help move forward the science. Well and further - to develop HH. The easiest way - packing things into a bag. When you figure out how to cram them better, your brain to solve complex problems and trains.

10. Feed the brain's right!

Especially if you still can not tell until the end of a single poem from the school curriculum, and for birthdays remind you familiar with Facebook.

■ Walnuts. Almost the main food for the scholar! They even look like a brain. Five nuts a day - and you'll be provided with lecithin improves brain function and memory is activated. Once the nuts are useful if you suddenly live in a high radiation environment.

■ Fish. Terse and cold, it is rich in iodine, its meat contains omega-3, providing a rapid influx of energy necessary for the transmission of impulses in the brain cells. They regulate blood cholesterol levels and improve the performance of the vessels. If you're going to eat at least 100 grams of fish per day, you will increase the reaction rate, and you reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease.

■ Pumpkin seeds. Emptying half a cup in his jacket pocket, and during office scandals improves memory and causes the brain to think faster. All thanks to zinc.

■ Spinach. Adds it to the morning scrambled eggs two or three times a week. Contained in spinach lutein protects brain cells from premature aging.

■ Sage. The Johns Hopkins University found that sage inhibits the action of amino acids responsible for memory impairment. Now there is a daily drink tea with sage and remember everything about everyone.

11. Try to guess the phrase interlocutor.

Rebecca Seyks MIT believes that with proper training of people will be able to understand others and even without words - the words of a person, look and other similar features. It is responsible for this section of the brain, which is located behind the right ear and is responsible for intuition.

12. Establishments blog.

Telling him about the events of the day, you will not only learn to articulate thoughts, but you will constantly think of new topics and caustic responses to the questions devoted readers.

13. Koichi Tohei ...

Writer, aikido master, the owner of the 10-th Dan, founder of the Society cues ki-aikido-style:

"Reading - the cornerstone of the intellect. Fill your spare time reading all kinds of books. Read novels, nonfiction, biography. Please browse through the book quickly to make up for her overall performance. If you feel that it makes sense, read it again. As a result, your brain will increase the ability to adapt to different circumstances, and organize a wide variety of data. "

14. Solve crosswords.

Surprisingly, this effect: brain healthy spur serious crosswords.

15. Konstantin Sheremet'ev ...

Researcher, author of "Intellektika" project, the author of "Perfect brain: How do I manage the subconscious" and "How to become smarter":

"Someone said that if the school he bad solved math problems or something in a similar way - it means that he is smart and will remain so forever. This is utter nonsense. If in 18 years to pump up the muscles themselves, and then lie down on the couch and forget about them, then very soon they will atrophy. And with the efficiency of the brain the same thing happens. "