Sleep and Exercise

Being awake - creates toxic products. Sleep - washes out of toxins. Brains way to keep it clean and healthy.

Poison that doesn't make us think clear. Washing out toxins. Some, including me, would sacrifice sleep to cram more info hoping to learn more effectively and faster. Damn I've been learning the wrong way. Glad to find this information, which makes sense, to help me with my furhter learning.

Brain tidies up the learning material, deepens the neural patterns and strengthens them. Complete deactivation of “you” helps me unconsciously sort of the material. Think what you are learning about - you might dream about it. Dreaming about what you are studying - helps you to understand the material. Wow.

Allows the brain a chance to rehearse difficult material – going over and over the tougher aspects of what you are trying to learn.

Trying to study without having slept the night before is like trying to think with POISON on the brain. NOOOOOO.

And just as importantly, exercise is surprisingly valuable in helping to improve both our memory and our ability to learn.

Jogging etc, helps to come up with new thoughts and etc unconscious thoughts bubble into. The only problem is to remember those ideas.Taking notes to remember what he was thinking about doing the run.

Your brain needs that moment of pause to use your muscles rather than your brain to be able to process that information and get the neurons working on it.

Be in a creative environment with other people. Might seem the contrary compared with the painter guy, closing yourself up and stuff. But he find its easier for him to learn stuff when he is discussing new ideas and trying to explain them the process (** this is really important I think to bounce my ideas off from them…I like that as well).

"Isolating ourselves…” BUT - For many years the scientific view of the brain was that once our brain was mature the neurons we had could be strengthened with learning but new neurons couldn’t develop as we aged. A lot of people still believe this is true, which creates a pretty bleak outlook as they get older. But now scientists have better methods of watching the brain in action and they can see that our brains develop new neurons while we sleep, when we surround ourselves with stimulating environments and people - and when we exercise! Interestingly, even if we don't have a stimulating environment exercise still assists our brains in growing new neurons. Good news for introverts.