你不知道的,10個高效用腦的好習慣

Learn what is the “It” in “Use It or Lose It”. A basic understanding will serve you well to appreciate your brain’s beauty as a living and constantly-developing dense forest with billions of neurons and synapses.
1. 瞭解。 在“使用它或失去它”中，“它”是什麼。基本的瞭解將有助於你去欣賞你的大腦作爲活的並不斷髮展的有上億神經元和突觸的茂密森林的美麗。

Take care of your nutrition. Did you know that the brain only weighs 2% of body mass but consumes over 20% of the oxygen and nutrients we intake? As a general rule, you don’t need expensive ultra-sophisticated nutritional supplements, just make sure you don’t stuff yourself with the “bad stuff”.
2. 注意你的營養。 你是否知道大腦僅佔身體總重的2%卻要消耗我們攝入的氧氣和營養的20%以上？ 作爲一般規則，你不需要昂貴的超精密的營養品，只要確定你沒有用“壞的東西”填充自己。

Remember that the brain is part of the body. Things that exercise your body can also help sharpen your brain: physical exercise enhances neurogenesis.
3. 記住大腦是身體的一部分。 凡是鍛鍊身體的東西也能幫助提升你的大腦：體育鍛煉增強了神經。

Practice positive, future-oriented thoughts until they become your default mindset and you look forward to every new day in a constructive way. Stress and anxiety, no matter whether induced by external events or by your own thoughts, actually kills neurons and prevent the creation of new ones. You can think of chronic stress as the opposite of exercise: it prevents the creation of new neurons.

4. 正面的實踐，面向未來的想法直到這成爲你默認的心態並且你以積極的方式來期待每一天。壓力和焦慮，不管它們是由外部事情還是你自己的想法引起了，實際上都會殺死神經元並阻止新的生成。你可以把慢性應激行爲作爲鍛鍊的反面：它會阻止新的神經元的生成。

Thrive on Learning and Mental Challenges. The point of having a brain is precisely to learn and to adapt to challenging new environments. Once new neurons appear in your brain, where they stay in your brain and how long they survive depends on how you use them. “Use It or Lose It” does not mean “do crossword puzzle number 1,234,567″. It means, “challenge your brain often with fundamentally new activities”.
5. 喜歡學習和腦力挑戰。 大腦存在的原因就是去學習和適應新環境的挑戰。一旦新的神經元出現在你的大腦，它們待在腦中哪裏存活多久取決於你怎麼使用它們。“使用它或失去它”並不等於“做縱橫填字數字遊戲1，234，567”。 它意味着，“用根本新的活動來挑戰你的大腦”。

We are (as far as we know) the only self-directed organisms in this planet. Aim high. Once you graduate from college, keep learning. The brain keeps developing, no matter your age, and it reflects what you do with it.
6. 就我們所知，我們是在這個地球上唯一能自我指導的生物。高目標。 一旦你大學畢業，繼續學習。大腦持續發展，不管你的年齡，它反映的是你用它來做什麼。

Explore, travel. Adapting to new locations forces you to pay more attention to your environment. Make new decisions, use your brain.
7.探索，旅遊。適應新地點迫使你更多的關注你周圍的環境。使用你的大腦做新的決定。

Don’t Outsource Your Brain. Not to media personalities, not to politicians, not to your smart neighbour… Make your own decisions, and mistakes. And learn from them. That way, you are training your brain, not your neighbour’s.
8. 不要外包你的大腦。 不要給媒體人士，不要給政治家，不要給你聰明的鄰居。。。自己決定對錯，並從中學習。這樣，你是在訓練你的大腦，而不是你鄰居的。

Develop and maintain stimulating friendships. We are “social animals”, and need social interaction. Which, by the way, is why ‘Baby Einstein’ has been shown not to be the panacea for children development.
9. 發展和保持促進友誼。我們是“社會動物”，我們需要社會互動。這就是爲什麼“小小愛因斯坦”已被證明不是兒童發展的靈丹妙藥

Laugh. Often. Especially to cognitively complex humor, full of twists and surprises. Better, try to become the next Jon Stewart
10. 經常大笑。 特別是認知複雜的幽默，充滿曲折和驚喜。更好，努力成爲下一個喬恩斯圖爾特。

現在，請記住關鍵不是讀這篇或別的文章，而是每天練習一點直到小步驟變成不可阻擋的大雪球，內在的習慣。所以，從今天起挑選你的下次戰鬥，並嘗試開始改善至少十個習慣中的一個。