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what determines our intelligence one school of thought is that okay maybe you're either just born with it or you

either have it or you don't some people are smart some people are less smart or maybe you can change it and it turns out

there's actually been a lot of research on this in the last few decades and the answer is pretty clear that your

intelligence can actually be changed what we've learned what researchers have taught us is that our brains are

actually a lot like a muscle we know that you can grow your muscles by going into the gym and doing exercise and

straining your muscles you don't just work on things that are easy for your muscles to do you do things that your

muscles have to struggle with that your muscles have to strain with and then they rebuild themselves and they come

back stronger by struggling it's a it's a signal to your body to devote more resources to that part of the body and

we see that exact same thing with the brain and here are just a couple of examples of it this first one this is

this is this shows how the human brain develops in early childhood this is a a depiction of of the the the neurons in a

brain at Birth and then over as a child develops it it interacts with its environment it tries things out it

struggles it struggles to to talk to converse to interact with folks to understand the world around it and as it

struggles you see that by age six you have a much deeper and much stronger connectedness between the different

neurons similarly similarly I can never say that word this these are depictions of this is the these are the neurons of

two different scenarios this is the the nerves of of animals that were in unstimulating environments where they're

not around other other animals they're in a bear cage and then this is this is the brain of an animal that is in a

stimulating environment that is constantly being challenged that is constantly looking at stimulating new

things and so the big takeaway from this whole area of research is you absolutely can change your intelligence that your

brain is like a muscle the more you use it the stronger it gets and that the best way to grow it isn't to do things

that are easy for you that might help a little bit but what really helps your brain is when you struggle with things

and it's actually research shows that your brain grows the most not when you get a question right but when you get a

question wrong so at least for me this is incredibly exciting because it lets me know that when I'm going through

something and I'm facing those times of maybe a little bit of adversity or a little bit of frustration I can I can I

can feel good about the fact that those are actually the times that I am growing the most and this isn't just something

that I'm saying nice words research tells us when you get something wrong when you challenge your brain when you

review why you got it wrong when you really process that feedback that's when your brain grows the most and that if

you keep doing that you're well on your way to having a strong stronger more able and I guess you could say smarter

brain