How does lifelong learning power your brain?
Exposure to new learning helps keep your brain healthy. Neuroplasticity enables continued learning and challenges to foster positive brain changes and the formation of new neural pathways.SCIENCE SAYS:
Cognitive reserves influence the brain's resilience to damage or disease. Increased cognitive reserves can help prevent or delay symptoms of dementia and brain injury. Lifelong learning helps build up cognitive reserves and increase the chances of staving off cognitive decline.BEGIN BY:
- Cultivating your curiosity by exploring new hobbies (or forgotten passions)
- Identifying gaps in your knowledge and experience, and finding ways to fill them
- Evaluating the credibility of information, like the purpose and accuracy of a news story
- Asking objective and analytical questions, and then seeking out high-quality sources of information that address varied points of view
