Excellent tips and moreover I would like to add, if you add up all the time you spend each day going from place to place—school, work, running errands, waiting in line at the post office—it’s a ton of time each month during which the brain doesn’t really need to be actively engaged. Your commute times are often quite long, sometimes over two hours, and that doesn’t count being stuck in traffic as I’m trying to get to the gym or meeting friends for dinner. To maximize the time and give your brain something to focus on, you can listen to podcasts or audio books. It helps to manage time better, improve productivity since you are always learning new things you can apply to your personal and professional life, and even boost your creative thinking with ideas you come up with as you're listening to them.