- Ahh, I want a more powerful brain.
This video is "27 Ways to Develop Your Mind".
Did you know it's possible for almost anyone
to increase their memory capability by 300% in just an hour?
That is from one of the 27 ways to develop your mind.
Check this out.
Number one, the first way to develop your mind
is engage in opposing points of view.
Don't surround yourself and don't talk to people
who just believe the way you believe.
I think we'll all agree that some TV
and news channels slant one way,
other news channels slant the other way.
Whatever your belief tends to be,
I encourage you to watch the other perspectives.
Listen to the other perspectives,
seek out people who view the world differently than you,
and ask questions, not to win an argument,
but to see their point of view.
Travel the world.
That's gonna help you see different perspectives,
and seeing different perspectives,
even if you don't agree, will develop your mind.
Number two, metacognition.
Think about your thinking.
Pay attention to what you're thinking.
Think about, "What am I thinking about right now?"
When you go for a walk, don't just think about something,
pay attention to what you're thinking about.
Notice what you're thinking about.
Be conscious of your thinking
and how you react to certain events.
How do you react to a person when they say this?
Become conscious of your thinking,
and maybe even keep a journal and take notes.
Metacognition, think about your thinking.
Number three, meditate.
Meditate actually rewires your neural pathways.
Meditation can reduce stress, it can reduce anxiety.
And it might be hard to meditate at the beginning,
so maybe you wanna do a guided meditation,
or maybe you wanna work up to it
and just meditate for a few minutes
and then you can build and build and build
until you're meditating for longer in the day,
or you wanna get a app on your phone, but meditate.
It'll reduce your stress, it'll reduce your anxiety,
it'll improve your clarity,
it'll improve your ability to focus.
Next, exercise often.
Your brain and your body are connected.
What is good for your body is gonna be good for your brain.
What is good for your brain is gonna be good for your body.
When you're healthy and when you're fit,
your blood is flowing better,
more oxygen is getting to your brain,
your brain is gonna be more awake.
And maybe do something that's low-impact
like walking, or jogging, or swimming.
I do jujitsu.
You don't have to be crazy and do something
where people are trying to do choke you.
That's my exercise.
Whatever you want to do though, make sure that you exercise.
Your body and your brain are all one.
Next, to cultivate healthy relationships,
and I don't just mean healthy relationships
with people exactly like you.
We kinda talked about this before.
You wanna listen to opposing points of view.
But it's also good to have friends
with different points of view.
Maybe it's good to have a friend
who's really, really super-successful in business
and another one who's really super-successful
at working out, and maybe another one
who has a perspective from a different part of the country,
or a different part of the world,
or a different religion than you,
but cultivate healthy relationships with these people.
Relationships involve communication,
and talking, and asking questions, and understanding,
but work on your relationships.
And working on your relationship's
what's going to develop your brain.
Next, ask more questions.
Leonardo da Vinci used to have a journal
where all he did in that journal was ask questions.
He would write down questions like "Why do birds fly?
"Why do they slow down right before they land?"
He would just ask all these questions,
and he wouldn't worry about the answers.
He knew that if he closed his journal
and went about his day,
his subconscious mind would be working on those questions.
Ask questions like Leonardo da Vinci did.
It's gonna engage your brain.
It's gonna develop your mind.
Next, sit down, get rid of distractions.
You know what I did this month, the last four weeks?
After 7:00 p.m. each night, I turned off my cell phone,
and at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, I turned it off
and didn't look at it, for the most part,
until 7:00 a.m. on Monday.
No cell phone, no social media,
no Instagram, even no YouTube.
I did not want to distract myself.
I wanted to relax.
I wanted to be at peace.
Next, seek out sunlight.
You gotta get outside.
That sunlight, that vitamin D
is gonna give you a positive attitude,
it's gonna give you more energy,
it's gonna help you with depression and anxiety.
Get some sunlight.
If you can't get at least 15 minutes of sunlight a day,
make sure you take some vitamin D supplements.
Next read, read, read, read.
And you know what my favorite books are to read?
Old books.
I even have a link down below in the subject
of old books that I have reviewed.
A lot of them are old memory books.
So click the link below and check out those books.
I love reading books,
books written a hundred, 200 years ago.
But regardless, read.
It engages your brain.
And when you read, don't just read to learn.
Read to ask yourself, "Is what this author's saying true?
"Is what this author's saying correct?",
and then reason with it in your brain.
If you determine that it's correct,
you've added it to your database of knowledge.
If you determine that it's not correct,
you've worked on your reasoning skills
and developing your brain.
Reading is a powerful tool in developing your mind.
Click the link down below to read some really old books,
a lot of them on memory in the brain, for free.
Next, get enough sleep.
If you don't get enough sleep,
your brain's not gonna be operating to maximum capacity.
Dr. James Maas, who wrote a book called "Sleep for Success",
he said, you need to get between seven
and nine hours per sleep a night.
He would coach Olympic athlete,
and one of the things he would tell his Olympic athletes
is get more sleep.
One of them said, "I don't wanna be sleeping in
"until seven or eight in the morning.
"What are my competitors, and friends,
"and family gonna think?"
He said, "Do you care really what they think,
"or do you care about winning the gold medal?"
Sleep is crucial for an Olympic athlete and a student.
Whenever you are studying
and then you get it a good night's sleep that night,
your brain replays what you learned during the day.
You remember it more with a good night's sleep.
Next, eat healthy foods.
Cut down on excessive sugar,
cut down on an excessive salt,
cut down on excessive alcohol.
Your brain needs healthy foods to function.
Drink plenty of water.
A dehydrated brain can't focus.
Eat an avocado a day.
That healthy fat is tremendous for your brain.
Next, maintain high standards,
and maintain a healthy mindset.
What does high standards mean?
A high standard means set goals and set big goals,
reasonable, but goals that you can hit.
But also maintain a healthy mindset.
Don't let fear and anxiety,
oh, I can't do that, or I'm not good enough,
or I'm not smart enough, or tall enough,
or strong enough, or old enough, or young enough.
Maintain a healthy mindset.
Next, learn something new.
Set a goal for yourself.
You know what, I wanna speak Spanish,
hola, mi nombre es Ron,
or you wanna learn to play the guitar,
(guitar strumming)
or you want to get really good at jujitsu,
or you wanna just learn to sew something,
or you wanna learn to paint or draw.
Learn a new skill,
something that's totally different from who you are.
That will engage your brain.
Next, do brain training exercises.
There was a book called "Keep Your Brain Alive"
by Manning Rubin and Lawrence Katz, both PhDs,
and they said if you do things that are new,
it will engage your brain.
Like whenever you walk in your house, close your eyes,
and try to walk through your house with your eyes closed.
Do it slowly so you don't hurt yourself,
but that closing your eyes
and try to remember where everything is at
is gonna use your brain in different ways.
Put a bunch of coins in your pocket,
and reach in your pocket and try to determine
what the coins are by the feel of the coins.
That will engage your brain in a different way.
These are brain training exercises
that actually have benefits.
Next, take care of your health.
Go to the doctor, get a blood test,
and find out what your hormone levels are,
what your vitamin levels are, if you're dehydrated.
Pay attention to your health, and your doctor will say,
"Hey, you need to take more of this vitamin."
or "You need to drink more water."
or "Maybe we could do this
"to boost your testosterone levels."
Pay attention to your health, and go and visit your doctor
because paying attention to your health
will also pay attention to your brain health.
Next, try something creative.
Doing something creative creates new neural pathways.
Maybe you wanna take an art class, or a cooking class,
or learn how to sculpt, or learn how to paint.
Do something that is creative,
something that really evokes your imagination.
Maybe you wanna become a writer
and write a fiction story about a talking bird.
That'd be cool.
Next, travel more.
I've been to 55 countries, maybe 56 now,
56 or 57, I've lost count.
I am not the same person I was 15 years ago
when I went to my first foreign country, Malaysia.
A few weeks after that, I went to Singapore.
Since then, I've been to Indonesia,
and I've been to Japan, and China, and Zimbabwe,
and Tanzania, and Nigeria, and Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
By going to these different places,
by seeing the different parts of the world,
it's engaged my brain to think about things a different way.
I'm like, "Huh, why do they do that that way?
"Why do they believe that?"
And that bouncing that around in my head
has been great for the development of my mind.
Next, exercise your memory.
You can build your memory.
You can build it by as much as 300%
using techniques known as the Mind Palace.
What's the Mind Palace?
It's where you visualize locations in a room.
You number the desk, the bed, the TV, the dresser,
then you get words you want to remember,
dog, cat, refrigerator,
and you just imagine them on top
of those pieces of furniture.
Almost anybody can remember three times
the amount as much information that way
as they can with their normal memory.
If you don't know what the Mind Palace is,
click the link down below
and check out my Black Belt Memory course.
It is really good at explaining the Mind Palace method.
Next, at the end of the day, replay what you did that day,
but don't just start at the beginning
and replay the whole day.
Try to start backwards and review your day backwards.
It requires a lot of thinking.
You're like, "Oh my gosh, this is so challenging."
but that's gonna engage your brain.
A good game you can play with your brain
to develop your mind.
Next, keep a journal.
Keeping a journal's gonna have a lot of benefits
to the development of your mind.
One of the first thing that it's gonna do
is it's gonna keep a record of changes over the years,
and you'll have those journals to see that.
Another thing is, it'll get your thoughts out on paper.
Sometimes our thoughts aren't clear until we write 'em down,
and then we write 'em down, it becomes so clear.
A journal's a great place to get your ideas out on paper.
It's a great time to debate with yourself.
It's also a great time to see
what you really know about its topic.
If you're studying for a test,
open up your journal and write everything you know
about what you're studying for
and see how much you can remember.
Next, declutter your mind and your life.
Get rid of things that aren't necessary.
Do you have a storage unit
just full of stuff that you don't use?
I used to have two cars.
Why do I need two cars?
If you have two cars, no condemnation here,
but I sold one of 'em.
What's the point?
The more I get rid of stuff, and the more I declutter,
it's almost like more and more weight
is being lifted off my brain.
There's something to be said for minimalism.
Next, surround yourself with positive people.
If you are surrounding yourself with negative people,
oh my gosh, I can't believe this about the government,
I can't believe this about society,
I can't believe this about people,
or if you're around people who just like to gossip
about other people, get rid of 'em.
Surround yourself with positive people,
people who are talking about their goals.
They're talking about the things
that they wanna do in life, that they wanna accomplish.
They're not complaining about society,
the government, or other people.
Moving forward, the positive.
Next, play more, have fun.
Work hard, work, work, work,
but when you play, play hard.
For you, playing hard may just be laying by the beach,
relaxing and taking a nap.
That's fine, but make time for play.
Make time for fun.
It will relax you.
It will relax your brain,
and you will come back more refreshed
and your brain more awake to tackle your next challenge.
And lastly, learn from your mistakes.
When you make a mistake, acknowledge it
and say, "Ah, I was wrong.
"Man, I shouldn't have done that.
"How could I have done that better?"
I've been giving the same memory training speech
for 29 years now, and after every speech,
do you know what I asked myself?
What could I have done better?
What could I have changed?
How could have I improved that?
I have given that speech thousands and thousands of times,
and every time I ask myself,
"What could I have done better?"
I'm always so happy when I think about it,
and I'm like, "I think that one, I nailed.
"I don't know if I could have done anything better.",
but a lot of times, I could have, and because of that,
the speech continues to get better.
These are my ways to develop the brain and develop the mind.
I hope you develop your brain and your mind.
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