He concludes that if you don’t use your brain then its powers could diminish, so to help avoid this you need to keep your brain active.

One interesting observation he made was that retired farm workers were more than twice as likely as retired farm managers to become mentally impaired as they got older. The workers were considered to have had less intellectually challenging jobs than the managers and that this was the cause of the difference.

And what is the moral of the story?  Well, the way to keep mentally alert is to do things that challenge you intellectually, to keep your brain active.  How?

There are many things you could do and one of them is to use Memory Maps for learning and remembering the things that you are interested in, or perhaps you have to learn as part of a course or for work.

Memory Maps use a combination of location, words, images, and colour, even sound and moving visuals to help you learn, memorise and keep you intellectually challenged and your brain stimulated. Below is an example of a completed Memory Map the subject of which is how to do memory maps:   

So our advice is to keep your brain active all your life and try Memory Mapping, it’s easy to use for learning, remembering and helping you to speak about a subject!

See the articles on this Blog and our free reports to find out more about Memory Mapping and the detail of how it all works. 

You can help your children learn outside the classroom, you therefore can be a teacher to your children.

Anthony Robbins says that;

“what we consider possible or impossible is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.”

Have you said to yourself I can’t do that, or that’s just not me or that would be impossible to do?

If so you have, as Robbins says;

“run up against the barriers of a limited identity”.

You have confined what you are able to do within certain boundaries because you see yourself as not being able to do something, it has become what you are and it has become part of your identity. Is this ok?

This is fine if you are dealing with something that is bad or just plain wrong. For example if you say to yourself “I’m not a car thief, that’s just not me”.

But what happens if you believe you are not something or can’t do something which if you could, would be of benefit to you and to others. What if you believe that you cannot help your children learn, if you believe that you cannot be a teacher to them?

In this case the world has lost something special.

And if you do believe that you, a parent, are also a teacher, if you expand your boundaries and being a teacher becomes part of your identity, what then?

Well, you and your children will have gained something really special.

Our Blog, and the other Learning Well Blogs, is here to help you and to  help you help your children. Please feel free to look at the other articles and to download our free reports.

The left side of the brain is thought to be the logical half processing information sequentially in parts. The right side of the brain is said to be the creative side processing in ‘wholes’.

This understanding has led to an industry of commentators who have categorised people as predominantly ‘left brained’ or ‘right brained’, often saying that one is better than the other, if you like that one learning resource is better than the other. Is this the correct view and how does the answer matter to you personally and as a parent?

Well, other researchers now say that this is too limited a way of thinking about the brain and that human capability and learning does not fall neatly into left brain and right brain activity.  For example J Levy says that the two halves are involved in almost everything that people do.

To quote Eric Jenson;

“Each side of the brain relies on the other and each is part of a larger “whole” …… Both parts and wholes are important to learning ….. those who are promoting ‘right brain thinking’ might do more good by promoting ‘whole brain thinking’.

So how can you apply whole brain thinking to help you and your children with life and with learning?

A brilliant and practical method of applying whole brain thinking is to use Memory Mapping. 

The Learning Well encourages the use of Memory Mapping as it provides one of the very best whole brain learning experiences that makes use of all the learning resource that is the brain.

A Memory Map combines logic, sequence, and creativity to enable accelerated learning that can be very easily remembered.

Using this technique can make a huge difference to you personally and also to your children greatly enhancing their abilities and learning.

We thoroughly recommend the use of Memory Mapping to you and you are invited to learn about it from the resources available to you on this Blog including our free reports. Mapping will make a huge difference to your life and that of your children enhancing their learning and yours.