“Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter.” – Amit Ray
The cells in the brain called neurons are each connected to thousands of other neurons. The strength, number and location of those neurons affect how the brain works.
Amazingly, these connections change all the time as a result of our experiences. Certain experiences cause new connections to form or strengthen, making the brain smarter by literally rewiring it.
Here’s a synopsis of one of the studies that show the brain changing in action.
A study on London taxi drivers provides additional evidence that working hard on something challenging can cause anatomical changes in the brain.
Anyone who wants to be a taxi driver in London has to take a very challenging exam known to Londoners as The Knowledge. They often spend years studying for the exam and familiarising themselves with the streets of London.
Scientists hypothesise that since they give their brains such a workout, the part of the brain responsible for spatial memory, the hippocampus, might be larger in taxi drivers compared to other Londoners.
That’s exactly what they found. On top of that, the longer the person had been a taxi driver, the bigger the hippocampus was.
Now that you are armed with this knowledge, will you adopt a growth mindset by opening the window of your mind, allowing the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter?
Your personal growth, especially adopting a growth mindset, is a sure way of claiming your dreams. Your dreams have long been calling you, you have the power to live them but all you need to do is to transform yourself from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset and watch your dreams come to pass.
