Over life you can improve yourself in many ways and learn lots of news things. In life skills we have been looking at neuroplasticity, training your brain, resilience/grit and happiness. Over the lessons that we have been learning about all of this I have learnt many things on different ways that we can think about the world and change our lives.
I never knew that neuroplasticity was a thing, but I have learnt that it’s the ability of the nervous system to change in response to intrinsic or extrinsic stimuli by reorganising its structure, function and connection. Neuroplasticity represents how the ability of the brain can adapt and change over time to be able to master new skills, store memories and information.
Do you believe that it’s possible to train your brain, well guess what it is. Training your brain is a program of regular activities claimed to maintain or improve one’s cognitive abilities. Some different that you can train your brain include doing puzzles, playing cards and building your vocabulary. You can also improve your reaction times. The main way to training your brain is to practice which will help improve it.
In life you must require resilience to move past obstacles and challenges. You might encounter this really hard question in a maths test that you can’t remember how to solve, and you might want to give up but part of having resilience is to not give up so you keep on trying until you get it. Trust me afterwards you’ll be pleased that you didn’t give up which helps build your resilience. Grit is also somehow similar but also represents someone having courage such as Nick Vujicic, he was born without any arms and les but doesn’t let any obstacle in life stop him from being who he is. Since Nick had Grit he has now become a motivational speaker, painter, swimmer and skydiver. He can even steer a boat with the one foot he has which he’s very grateful for. If Nick didn’t have Grit none of this would have been possible for him.
The key to life, happiness. It is a sense of joy which you can feel when you’re successful, lucky, safe and much more. Happiness is something that will most likely naturally come and it’s not something we learn but we just feel. Even if you have a time when you’re unhappy you can always find happiness as Eddie Jaku. During World War II he was imprisoned in 2 concentration camps as a child. He’s still alive at 101 and he calls himself the happiest man alive. This shows that no matter your circumstances or what has happened in the past you can always find happiness.
Doing all of these things will help you to have a happy, healthy life, be resilient and have a strong brain both mentally and physically.