You Can Grow Your Brain Summary

The title alone, “You Can Grow Your Brain,” made me think this article was going to be about how learning new things will make you smarter. I did not realize that it literally meant the brain can, and will grow when you are learning new things, or challenging yourself to learn new skills. We have always been told, “Practice makes perfect,” and really, when you apply this rule to everything we do in life, it is true, and yet for some people, we stop challenging ourselves to learn new things because of the fear of failing at something we don’t know.
I believe the article is trying to convey the point that we must keep challenging ourselves at all times, so that we continue to work our brains, and they will continue to absorb more and more information, and in turn, our brains can grow. We must take responsibility to continue learning. Just as we cannot expect our bodies to look like we’ve been to the gym, if we have not in fact been to the gym.
It is scary to think that we live in a world where everything is becoming easier, and easier, everything is at the touch of a button, everything is right here, right now, forgetting about the past to replace it with the future. Yes, we need to keep moving forward as a species, but with everything becoming easier to do, makes me question whether we are dumbing ourselves down. If people do not continue their education, or simply just keep trying to learn something new all the time, our brains will sit there, not being “worked”, and will then just stay with what we’ve already