If you don’t use your brain you could lose your mind
French neuro scientist Francois Dartigues has looked into the relationship between how intellectually challenging a job is and the likelihood of you becoming mentally impaired as you get older.
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.
