Mozart’s Brain and the Fighter Pilot

What it does

Richard Restak explains how memory is the key to developing our cognitive capacity. The more we can remember the more we can link and connect.

To get smarter, we need to exercise our cognitive powers – in the same way that we strengthen our bodies by exercising our muscles. To do this, we need to put ourselves in rich and varied environments, learn new things, and strengthen our memory. Most of us want to be smarter but have no idea how to go about improving our mental apparatus. We intuitively think that if we raised our IQ a few points that we’d be better off intellectually. This isn’t necessarily the case. I know a lot of people with high IQs that make terribly stupid mistakes. The way around this is by improving not our IQ, but our overall cognition. Cognition, argues Richard Restak , “refers to the ability…from fs.blog

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