Why do I need to keep my brain active?

An active brain keeps your neurons firing. Stimulating the brain with an assortment of activities: Sudoku, crosswords, reading, learning, hobbies, all promote clearer access for the neuron highways in your brain that send signals to other cells in your brain. The “road less travelled” is not what you want your brain to experience. We do not want those neural pathways to get overgrown, grow cracks or fill with dead leaves and debris and eventually be abandoned. We want them to keep firing on “HIGH”. It’s called “neuronal firing” and that’s how our brain cells communicate with each other. New pathways are created every time you start/learn something new and then do it again and again. Your brain is STATION CENTRAL CONTROL. Keep it engaged with new stuff and do not stop doing the stuff you’re already doing that needs brain power.

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