Majid Fotuhi, M.D., Ph.D.
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If you learn the language, the corresponding parts of the brain for language improve, especially according to significant campus.
Yeah, because it requires a lot of attention.
You have to focus your hands and your eyes, which means that you really need to focus on what you're doing.
So if you're going for a walk, you could be thinking about things, you're really not focusing.
But when you play ping pong, you can't be playing ping pong and then do arithmetic at the same time.
because the ping pong, the hand-eye coordination, really requires your brain to maintain its full attention on the ball.
You cannot pay attention.
That's one of the things I like about ping pong, because when I play ping pong, my mind is off everything else and I'm just so immersed in the game.
But going back to the intelligence, I think people need to realize there are two types of intelligence.
innate intelligence, which means you're born with some forms of intelligence.
You just find it easy to learn a language.
You just find it easy to play with numbers.
You just find it easy to play the piano.
And then there's the acquired intelligence.
You were never good with playing the piano to begin with, but you took a thousand hours of lessons and now you're as intelligent when it comes to playing the piano as somebody who had an innate talent.
People make the mistake
of looking at other people who have an innate talent for something
and they think that they are smart people, and then they don't appreciate all the things they're good at.
You don't appreciate how other people look at them and they wish they could be able to cook as well as they do, or they could be as good a handyman as they are, or they could write as well as they do, or they could tell jokes as well as they do.
So I think it's important for people to appreciate that they have some innate talents,
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