How You Can Grow Your Brain Analysis

In the article “You Can Grown Your Brain”, the author makes a clear connection stateing, with research, that the brain can grow with the right “exercise”. The author elaborates what this exercise might be to his audience. Since the article is mostly informational but simply written, it is targeted towards those whom, with the authors help, wish to improve their own IQ.
In the beginning the author says the brain is a muscle, intelligence is more complex than labeling someone as smart or dumb. It is emphasized that though exercise, the brain will get stronger, just as someone who consistently works out might. In other words, intelligence is something that can be developed by working out the brain. Practicing, using good strategies,and receiving help from others, improves one's own ability to think.
Being an adult or an animal, the author brings up studies which point out that environment and repetition affects the brain. In the animal study those whom
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