Learn a New Language
This tip serves multiple purposes. The most fundamental goal is to activate the brain by making it do something new and exciting such as learning a foreign language. It is beneficial if you are studying a completely unknown language such as German or French. Because the language portion in the brain is so malleable, learning a second language develops new areas of your mind and strengthens your brain’s natural ability to focus.
Learning another language helps improve people’s memory abilities and thinking skills. Bilingual students concentrate better by ignoring distractions more effectively than those who only speak one language. Learning a new language is also a great bonus to meet new people through studying. The studies suggest the bilingualism improves the brain’s executive function. It helps ignore distractions, stay focused, switch attention blindly from one thing to another, and keep information in your mind.
Learning to speak another language is an extraordinary way to increase intelligence, keep your mind sharp, and shield your brain against aging. A study in 2009 led by Agnes Kovacs of the International School for Advanced Studies in Italy shows that seven-month-old babies exposed to two languages from birth displayed improved cognitive control abilities compared to their monolingual counterparts.
