Lately I began to notice that I do not have time to react when something happens around. You need to somehow influence the surrounding situation that has arisen, but in your head it’s like some kind of brake. I can't figure out quickly what to do. Decisions come only after some time, when they are no longer relevant.
I thought about what is the reason for this and how to improve speed of thought
The main reason for the loss of speed
It turned out to be too much information for me. I overloaded my head with films, lectures, new knowledge, reading books... The brain was constantly thinking about something, processing, evaluating, analyzing how to apply it, what is the use of using it, is it worth doing it... Even when resting, the head automatically thought in this direction. Thus, the RAM of the head was regularly clogged, which led to a drop in mental speed.
How to increase your speed of thinking
To increase the speed of the brain, he began to unload his head. Namely:
- Watched less movies
- Watched less educational videos
- Started doing more sports
1. Fewer movies
It freed my head from thinking about the plot, useful moments, what this film gives, what I would do in the place of the hero ... and similar thoughts. After watching movies, a couple of times I noticed very accurately: the head after the movie is like in a sleepy state, the speed of thinking decreases significantly. I become like a vegetable. Yes, the movie is pleasant, interesting, somewhat useful. And at the same time efficiency goes away. Attention is spent on the video tape. There is no focus. In addition, at films have a number of negative influences
Accordingly 🙂 Reduced the number of movies watched. Increased the stock of available attention. Which led to an increase in the speed of response, to an increase in the speed of thinking. Eh, I really want to watch a movie 🙂 Soon, in 2017, it will be released. Well, sometimes I will allow myself. Occasionally. I'm not an iron man, and I don't want to be one
2. Fewer educational lectures
- The principle is the same. The only difference is that after the lectures, I loaded and thought - how to apply it, how effectively to apply the recommended practices ... I thought, thought, thought ... Then again I continued to watch seminars, webinars, lectures ... I thought again, pondered, calculated ... And the result was very little. For there was almost no time and energy left for practice
- Knowledge without practice is worth nothing. And knowledge put into practice is already wisdom 🙂 . In order not to be in the category of permanent students, he began to pay less attention to knowledge. Focus more on practicing what you already know
- Plus, the effect of accumulating reaction speed is added. When nothing happens, and the head is free, the brain goes into the “well, at least something happens, I want to solve problems” mode so much that when this something happens, the brain almost starts to give solutions in batches. Very fast. This is what the reserve of attention, the reserve of reaction speed means
- lecturers. There is a category of people - lecturers. No matter how you meet them, they pour smart quotes, links, retell something, tell ... So that they don’t have the same overload as from educational program🙂 , I do the following: I don’t listen to them 🙂
- I rarely allow myself to look. When really needed. And I also watch lectures or read books so that at least some minimal flow of educational information is
3. More sports
Especially outdoors. More began to move. It cleanses the brain with oxygen. Maybe you know the feeling when you run and think about something. Feeling that while running, the speed of thoughts begins to increase. You have time to figure out a lot more, more answers come
Oxygen, fresh air, movement. Anything similar. It helps speed up the brain. And how to accelerate the ability to react, quickly find answers and solutions
A universal mechanism for increasing the speed of thinking and attention
Consists of two actions:
- Remove attention from the superfluous and unnecessary
- Give attention to the priority
I remove attention from films, series, minor matters, exclude unnecessary communication, computer games, mindless surfing on the Internet and the like.
I'm focusing on what's first. To what really needs to be done, and not put off until later
What helps you speed up your brain?
Eleonora BrikSome people are unhappy with their brain activity, complaining about a genetic predisposition. The speed of thinking directly reflects a person's lifestyle. Improper nutrition and lack of physical activity, cigarette smoking, alcohol abuse and - there are many reasons for reducing memory and speed of thought. In the 21st century, a technique for increasing the potential of consciousness is in great demand.
Gymnastics for the mind is a set of exercises and daily activities that can be done on the way to work, during meals or before bed. Such classes do not require a specific place and time, because they are held in the mind of a person. The exact formula for "Success" has not been found, but the ways to achieve the cherished goal are known.
Changing a genetic predisposition, developing the speed of thinking and increasing brain activity is quite simple. The main thing is to follow a number of uncomplicated recommendations:
Regular exercise increases brain activity by increasing the number of gray cells.
Curiosity is a useful quality in the "race" for quick thinking. Find answers to emerging questions by getting new information.
Enjoy life, smile and laugh, because in a state of joy endorphins are produced in the body.
Include nuts in your diet, which contain omega-3 acids - such products will help improve memory by speeding up the process of assimilation of new information.
Scientists have proven that classical music enhances a person's ability to count, developing a mathematical mindset.
Regularly feed in the mind by adding new and interesting activities to develop the speed of thought.
Do not neglect rest, because a healthy and sound sleep improves the biological processes of life.
Analyze the information that happened to you during the day. By straining your memory, you train it by developing thinking.
Learn to focus on a particular activity, abstracting from distractions.
Stop being lazy and start reaching your goals.
Aromatic oils help fight stress, soothe nervous system favorably affect consciousness and increase brain activity.
To increase the speed of thinking, it is recommended to take non-standard solutions, which previously you would have oozed absolutely absurd actions. By viewing the situation from an unfamiliar and intricate angle, you develop the areas of the brain responsible for learning new information and memory.
Effective exercises for the development of quick thinking
You can develop the speed of thinking with the help of special exercises, which stimulate the work of certain areas of the brain. It is recommended to choose classes for logic and counting. A set of effective ways to increase the speed of thought include:
After making a purchase in the store, cover the total amount on the check with your finger. Add up the cost of products in your mind to “stretch” your thinking in an everyday situation.
Using perfume once again, try to identify the components of perfume by aroma. Identify components using only the sense of smell. After completing such a procedure, check the conclusions drawn.
Leaving the limits of your own apartment, remember 3 license plates of cars that you met on the way. Returning to the house, try to reproduce the signs in your memory.
Blindfold your eyes with an impenetrable cloth and identify objects by touch in familiar territory. Before performing such an exercise, it is recommended to make sure that the room is safe so as not to get injured by tripping over a chair or other interior components.
If you are used to doing daily tasks with your right hand, then change it to your left hand (brushing your teeth, eating, working at a computer, combing your hair).
Get a notebook at home in which you write down your favorite phrases and aphorisms. Hearing an interesting quote in a dialogue with an interlocutor or reading an exciting slogan on an advertising banner, remember them in order to replenish the collection later.
Enjoy your meal as you eat, exploring the flavors and aromas of the food.
Crosswords, puzzles and mosaics contribute to the development of the speed of thought.
A set of exercises should be exciting in order to be associated with positive emotions. If classes become routine training, then it is impossible to achieve your goal. Enjoy solving logic puzzles.
There is no single answer to the question of how to develop the speed of thinking. The main thing is that you have a strong desire to increase brain activity. Be sure to choose methods and techniques, exercises and exercises for logic, taking into account individual preferences.
January 18, 2014, 11:47Hello dear friends!
The speed of information processing by our brain plays a huge role, both in decision making and in life in general. Our success and well-being depend on how well and quickly we react to external factors and stimuli.
How to speed up the reaction of the brain? After all, he is a supercomputer weighing only a few pounds! But the movement of a person depends on his ability to correctly give signals to the body.
The center of control and delivery of commands that govern life is also responsible for relationships with other people, perception and emotional assessment of what is happening.
Brain response optimization is an opportunity to be better! That is why for today's article I have selected a few tips that will direct you to increase your mental abilities.
1. Physical activity
Californian scientists proved that in a person with systematic physical exertion, the gyrus begins to move better, producing the so-called "gray" cells in the body.
So, for example, in combat, an individual must concentrate with lightning speed and make informed decisions. Coordination of body movements, assessment of threat or distance to the enemy is similarly carried out using brain signals.
The life of an individual sometimes depends on how effectively the reaction to the signal given by the computer is built. Therefore, for the development of the speed of thought and the body entirely, I advise you to definitely go in for sports.
2. Thinking training
It's not just physical activity that matters when it comes to skill development. You can independently develop the desired area of \u200b\u200bthe brain and make it work more productively.
How to do it? First, it is worth understanding in advance what kind of thinking prevails over you? Secondly, earlier in my materials I wrote about how to develop logical thinking or improve the left hemisphere of the brain, responsible for feelings and creativity.
However, I would like to note that the thought process itself and independent analysis perfectly help to develop the dormant parts of the brain. I invite you to discover new sensations.
Try unknown smells or dishes, experiment while traveling, take up a craft that you have never known before. And of course, to open new horizons.
3. A simple question "Why?"
Get yourself into a new and healthy habit. You probably knew that the gray matter is predisposed to undisguised curiosity? So that's why, I'll suggest you develop the juicy skill of asking the question " Why?»
Ask yourself this question at least 10 times a day. Compare conclusions, conclusions, study new information and develop. You will be surprised how many prospects and opportunities will open up for you when implementing such little question into your speech!
4. Eat more nuts
Nuts contain oil. Starting from cedar, ending with walnuts. Previously, it was considered useful only for the treatment of heart diseases. But now, studies have shown that it is highly recommended in terms of increasing the speed of the brain.
Thanks to the nuts, there is an increase in the amount of oxygen that enters the head, and its proper circulation is also ensured. In addition, it contributes to a more efficient functioning of membranes in the cells of the body.
That is why people who are not lazy and add a lot of nuts and plant foods to their diet are less prone to nervous breakdowns, impaired attention and memory problems.
Also, for the sake of successful digestion, it is worth noting that nuts are rich in proteins, which means it is better not to mix them with carbohydrates (honey, raisins, ...)! This is one of the rules of careful nutrition, which will help you digest and assimilate food much more efficiently.
5. Train your memory
Techniques that help strengthen the skill of memorization have a beneficial effect not only on thinking, but also on the memory of the physics of the body. Practice and exercise is the recipe for a positive introduction to a new habit.
Dancing, aerobics, gymnastics, as well as meditation help our body to adjust everything in life. important systems regulation. By memorizing movements, exercises and postures, you strengthen the connection between the body and the brain signal.
Yes, and yourself chemical reactions that occur at the time of activity, train muscle memory and strengthen the entire body, and this increases the level of speed of movement.
Reading, solving problems and training visual memory, along with logical puzzles, perfectly recommend themselves in the development of a person.
6. Proper nutrition
Can bad fats make a person dumber? You won't believe it, but it's true! Researchers at the University of Toronto have proven a fact negative impact fats on the mental capabilities of the experimental subjects - that is, rats.
Why is this happening? With the rejection of junk food, the human brain begins to work easier and faster. When there is a replacement of harmful animal food with a huge amount of fats for food of plant origin, then the flow of oxygen-rich blood to the brain increases in the body.
And this, in turn, increases the indicators of the thought process and the speed of reaction.
7. Improve acquired skills
Of course, our life is full of familiar and ordinary activities. Among them you can find sewing, drawing, and cooking. But I advise you to diversify your leisure time by complicating household chores and acquired skills.
This will help to stimulate neural connections to an additional load. Start reading literature that, in addition to theory, carries practical implementation. Familiarize yourself with drawing styles unknown to you, master a different kind of cutting or sewing. Discover the world of raw food cooking and put what you learn into reality!
This approach commits you to achieve higher levels, and the brain - to be healthy and productive.
8. Games
An active lifestyle and the desire to move, rather than lying on the couch, help keep the gray matter in good shape. Have you managed to find free time? Be sure to spend it outdoors in the company of children or friends!
Tennis, football, basketball, frisbee and any kind of power loads are perfect for you! Go hiking, reach the top and don't be lazy to get a gadget that measures the number of steps per day
A newfangled lotion can be very useful for those people who spend most of their time sitting. And with the help of the application, you can always understand whether you are going home on foot or can you afford to take a ride in transport?
9. Train your concentration level
Concentration is a panacea for increasing brain performance! But it should be understood that its "devourers" are not always noticeable and perceptible. Learn to see when exactly you are distracted? What was the reason for doing this?
By doing one thing after another and being in a state of “here and now”, you can achieve high marks for your work in reality.
10. Aromatherapy and relaxation
In order not to burn all the cells in the head from an overabundance of effort, due attention should be paid to rest. I will advise you to resort to aromatherapy to tone up or vice versa, relax.
Substances that stimulate the body can carry notes of cypress and mint. But in case of calm, use a rose. A geranium scent may also be suitable.
Friends, I will put an end to this.
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To be successful in modern world, it is necessary to have time to respond to the changes that occur around us every day. To do this, you need to have a high speed of thinking. Find out how to boost it with reading!
Time acceleration
With every decade, with every century, time is accelerating, and this is a fact. In the 19th century, they could not imagine that soon people would fly at supersonic speeds, that this would become completely natural for the modernity of the 20th century.
In the 10th century, during Byzantine Empire, people did not imagine that after some time complex machines (trains) would be invented, and horses would cease to be the main transport for traveling long distances.
And now scientists are developing teleportation devices¹ that will allow you to move instantly.
Each time has its own speed of thinking. When environmental conditions change very quickly in front of a person, he needs to have time to perceive and analyze information.
How the speed of thinking depends on reading
Reading is the main way a person receives information. One of the most important things a child is taught is the ability to read.
The speed of a person's thinking depends on his ability to perceive the text, to see the meaning embedded in it.
High reading speed brings practical success - such people are able to make decisions quickly: speed in the modern world is the key to success in work and relationships.
Effective Reading Techniques!
The points below will allow you to take a fresh look at such a natural ability as reading, increase its speed and, as a result, the speed of your thinking!
When people read aloud, the tongue does not have time to pronounce the words as fast as the mind can perceive them. Reading aloud can significantly slow down the speed of information perception.
2. You need to fully concentrate on reading.
Without the ability to concentrate, a person cannot remember the text, no matter how slowly or quickly he reads it. need to train.
3. It is necessary to expand the level of perception of the text.
As a child, children are taught to run their fingers through the text so as not to lose their place in the text where the child is reading. But this slows down thinking - the finger does not keep up with the brain! It is useful to develop the concentration of the child from childhood, teaching him to increase the speed of reading and thinking.
4. It is useful to do eye training.
The constant use of the techniques described below will allow you to effectively train this skill:
- while walking, you need to look at the numbers of cars passing by;
- consciously switch attention to a variety of objects around you.
For example, carefully consider the details on the window, and then quickly switch to the view behind it. Thus, quickly switching attention between different subjects will teach you to quickly draw conclusions and understand what is happening "here and now";
- listen to soothing music while reading.
This contributes to the development of sustainable intention² and concentration of the human mind;
- speak out loud tongue twisters.
In addition to the fact that this has a positive effect on diction, making it clear, tongue twisters teach you to quickly perceive meaning and switch attention to new information. To do this, it is useful to pronounce several tongue twisters without a pause.
Following the above rules, training fast reading over time, they will teach a person to perceive information faster, significantly increase the speed of thinking. This will allow you to achieve greater success in life and will contribute to the self-improvement of the practitioner.
Notes and feature articles for a deeper understanding of the material
¹ Teleportation - a hypothetical change in the coordinates of an object (movement), in which the trajectory of the object cannot be described mathematically continuous function time (
Have you ever, replaying in your head the negotiations that have just been held or your participation in a stormy discussion, admit with annoyance that, unfortunately, only now, after some time, the necessary argument for partners or an exact replica to spite to your opponent? And the train, as they say, has already left. What determines the speed of decision-making, and how to develop the speed of thinking?
Let's look at a simple comparison. Have you noticed how the speed of the information flow differs between a movie in the cinema and a series on TV? When making a film, directors have a good idea of the environment in which the audience will watch it, and depending on this, they choose the appropriate speed for the development of the plot. In the cinema, you are completely involved in what is happening on the screen.
The pace of information presentation is so high that in order to facilitate perception, the rest of the stimuli are removed by turning off the lights in the hall. On the contrary, at home you watch the series at a measured pace, you have the opportunity to run to the refrigerator for something tasty, get distracted by a phone call, and still stay up to date on the events taking place on the screen.
brain different people also works at different speeds. Someone easily navigates the information flows that fall on him like frames of an action movie, while someone is able to process only the speed of the soap opera tempo. The speed of processing incoming information available to a person is called the speed of thinking.
The development of the speed of thinking is one of the directions for the development of a disciplined mind.
The speed of thinking is determined by the speed of the main nervous processes - excitation and inhibition. These are psychophysiological characteristics, and they cannot be influenced by a simple effort of will. But what can really be done is by training your mind to increase the speed of information processing.
So, here are 10 effective exercises for developing thinking speed.
Scenario "What if..."
When preparing for a complex negotiation or meeting where you are required to respond quickly to a rapidly changing situation, think ahead possible options development of events. Ask yourself what you will say in response to such and such a question, or how you will act in such and such a situation, or how you will parry your opponent's remark.
Such training is useful in that it encourages you to build probabilistic models of the future in your head. Use the preventive calculation of possible events as a simulator, because by imagining the situation, you can arbitrarily speed up or slow down the speed of your reasoning.
As long as your vocabulary is littered with this verbal husk, the tempo of your thoughts will be slower than the tempo of which you are actually capable of.
Practice thinking in another language
When the opportunity arises to reason outside of rigid time frames, force your brain to reason in a foreign language, not mother tongue. The process you initiate is similar to how Tibetan monks are trained. Performing various physical exercises with a load, they will then be able to perform the same exercises without load many times easier and faster.
The same principle works here: forcing the brain to build the logic of reasoning on non-native language, you train him so that he can then do the same thing in his native language much faster.
Reading with a stopwatch
Read a chapter of any book as quickly as possible. Record the time it took you to read. Now time again and quickly retell the main information you just read. Do this exercise regularly, each time trying to reduce both the time for reading and the time for retelling what was read. So you develop both the speed of perception and the speed of reproduction of information.
speed alphabet
Put a piece of paper with the letters of the alphabet in front of you. Come up with 3 words as quickly as possible, starting with each letter of the alphabet: three words for "a", then three words for "b", and so on until the letter "i". Gradually increase the number of words to come up with up to 10.
To make this exercise more difficult, use the stopwatch again. Measure how long it takes you to pick up 30 words. Then try to reduce this time by speeding up the pace of the task.
With Wikium, you can do exercises to develop the speed of thinking according to an individual program
Dear calls
Sometimes money for international calls on a mobile phone leaves very quickly abroad. Imagine that every second of your conversation is worth a lot of money. Remembering a conversation that you just had with someone, make it a rule to mentally repeat it in such a way as to minimize its time. Think about how you could clear this conversation of unnecessary informational noise - unnecessary phrases and questions that you could do without.
Practice engaging in business dialogue with someone if the situation allows. Imagine that you are talking on such a phone, where calls are very expensive. Try to speed up the dialogue, speak and think faster than you usually do. Focus only on the main thing, select only the most accurate words, do not get distracted from the topic, speak and respond quickly.
Set Your Priorities
To train quick thinking, use the practice of prioritization. Everything that you deal with, make contacts with, surrounds you, you can rank from important to optional and useless. The habit of ranking structures your personal information space.
Just as it is easy for you to find the things you need where they are in a certain order you know, it will be easy for you to find the information you need to make a decision. Although this recommendation can hardly be classified as a developmental exercise, following it means preparing your brain in advance for quick decisions.
Read humorous stories
Not only stories. You can also make a rule to watch humorous drawings. A sense of humor is always associated with a high speed of response to a situation. Plus, the ability to see an unobvious contradiction and designate it in the most vivid and precise formulations is connected here. All this together is the speed of thinking.
Do not just read or memorize witty anecdotes, but strive to understand what is the essence of the joke, why does it cause laughter?
Gathering a collection of puns will do no less good for your mind. By accumulating such an unusual experience of responding, you train your brain to give out something similar at the right time.
"Upside Down"
This exercise is similar to exercise 3, but is much easier to perform. And besides, it's more fun. When you pick up a magazine or a book or a newspaper, turn it over so as to change the top and bottom and scroll through, looking at the drawings and photographs placed there.
Try to understand what is shown there, and do it as quickly as possible. This is how you train your brain to recognize non-obvious signals, to navigate in the situation of “shifters”. And, most importantly, not to be satisfied with the first answer, but to delve into a deeper assessment of the situation. You can place "upside down" a complex intricate picture on your computer desktop.
Changing speeds
Since we are talking about the speed of thinking, it is worth practicing in controlling the speed of your processes. Do the same thing, changing the speed of its execution. For example, you can with different speed brush your teeth, drink a glass of water, read a letter received in the mail. By deliberately speeding up and slowing down your actions, you accustom your brain to work in different tempo-rhythms. Slow execution, try to gradually make it even slower. And, on the contrary, speed up the fast execution every now and then.
These exercises will not work if they are not done regularly.. Doing one task every day will stimulate your brain to develop in the right direction.
If you really intend to get serious about solving the problem, how to develop the speed of thinking of the exercises suggested here will help you.
- respond quickly to a problematic situation,
- do not regret that the right decision came to mind late,
- protect your brain from early aging and devastating diseases such as Alzheimer's.
