Dr. Majid Fotuhi

And he said that you should be proud of your mistakes.

You should be proud of your failures.

Because if you go skiing and you fall, you failed in a way.

You may think of it as a failure, but you have then got up and then did it again and you didn't fall as much.

It's a necessary step to learn.

Nobody can go to a ski resort from day one and just zoom down.

It doesn't happen like that.

Your brain has to learn.

Your brain has to form new networks.

New connections need to be made for you to be able to come down the ski hill and just maintain good shape.

Otherwise, just go down the pizza and that's all you do.

And when you feel frustrated that you want to do it and it's not happening, and then you learn and you do it and you're getting better,

then the corresponding parts of the brain are growing a lot of people who get older don't try new things because they say i'm too old and that's a huge mistake because they're depriving their brain of the opportunity to grow and become stronger it's a huge mistake instead they should enjoy their failure they should put themselves in things that are difficult

Which then makes them fall or have the stakes, which then they correct by doing it again and again, which then causes new brain growth, which then helps them stay sharper longer.

So I think brain training and challenging your brain is one of the very important pillars of brain health.

again if you have only one hour in a day i would spend 50 minutes of it exercising and 10 minutes of it do breathing exercises do hiv by feedback and do the brain training later in terms of the weight of how effective they are i think it's good that you have time for it and make a priority and hopefully do all five pillars of brain health every day but in terms of priorities i think

Exercise, sleep, stress reduction, diet are more important than brain training.

Brain training is like a nice addition to top it off.

We don't know the exact biological mechanism for why having a sense of purpose is so important.

Because we can't have a group of animals have a sense of purpose and a group that doesn't.