Brain development according to Bekhterev

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Academician Bekhterev once remarked that only 20% of people will be given the great happiness of dying, keeping the mind on the roads of life. The rest by old age will turn into angry or naive senile and become ballast on the shoulders of their own grandchildren and adult children. 80% is significantly more than the number of those who are destined to get cancer, Parkinson's disease or to sleep in old age from fragility of bones. To enter the happy 20% in the future, it is important to start now.

Where is the reason? Over the years, almost everyone begins to be lazy. We work a lot in our youth to rest in our old age. However, the more we calm down and relax, the more harm we do to ourselves. The level of requests comes down to a banal set: "eat tasty - get plenty of sleep." Intellectual work is limited to solving crosswords. The level of demands and claims to life and to others is growing, and the burden of the past crushes. Irritation from not understanding something results in a rejection of reality. Memory and thinking ability suffers. Gradually, a person moves away from the real world, creating his own, often cruel and hostile, painful fantasy world.

Dementia never comes suddenly. It progresses over the years, acquiring more and more power over a person. The fact that now is just a prerequisite in the future may become fertile soil for the germs of dementia. Most of all, it threatens those who have lived their lives without changing their attitudes. Traits such as excessive adherence to principles, perseverance and conservatism are more likely to lead to dementia in old age than flexibility, the ability to quickly change decisions, emotionality. "The main thing, guys, is not to grow old at heart!"

Here are some indirect signs that it is worth getting into a brain upgrade

1. You have become sensitive to criticism, while you yourself criticize others too often.

2. You don't want to learn new things. Rather agree to have your old mobile phone repaired than read the instructions for the new model.

3. You often say: "But before," that is, you remember and nostalgic for the old days.

4. You are ready to talk about something with rapture, despite the boredom in the eyes of the interlocutor. It doesn't matter that he falls asleep now, the main thing is that what you are talking about is interesting to you..

5. You find it difficult to concentrate when you start reading serious or scientific literature. You poorly understand and remember what you read. You can read half of the book today, and tomorrow you can forget its beginning.

6. You began to talk about matters in which you were never versed. For example, about politics, economics, poetry or figure skating. And it seems to you that you are so good at the issue that you could start running the state right tomorrow, become a professional literary critic or a sports judge.

7. Of the two films - a work by a cult director and a popular film novel / detective story - you choose the latter. Why strain yourself again? You don’t understand at all what someone finds interesting in these cult directors.

8. You are confident that others should adjust to you, and not vice versa.

9. There are many rituals in your life. For example, you cannot drink your morning coffee from any mug other than your beloved one without first feeding the cat and flipping through the morning newspaper.

The loss of even one element would unsettle you for the whole day.

10. At times you notice that you tyrannize others with some of your actions, and you do it without malicious intent, but simply because you think that this is more correct.

Upgrading your brain

Note, the brightest people who preserve reason until old age, as a rule, are people of science and art. On duty, they have to strain their memory and do daily mental work. They always keep their finger on the pulse of modern life, tracking fashion trends and even ahead of them in some way. This "production necessity" is the guarantee of a happy reasonable longevity

1. Start learning something every two to three years. You don't have to go to college and get a third or even fourth degree. You can take a short-term refresher course or master a completely new profession. You can start eating foods that you have not eaten before, learn new tastes

2. Surround yourself with young people. You can always pick up all sorts of useful things from them that will help you to always remain modern. Play with children, they can teach you a lot that you do not even know about

3. If you haven’t learned anything new for a long time, maybe you just weren’t looking? Take a look around, how much new and interesting is happening where you live.

4. From time to time, solve intellectual problems and pass all kinds of subject tests

5. Learn foreign languages, even if you don’t speak them. The need to regularly memorize new words will help train your memory.

6. Grow not only upward, but also inward! Take out old textbooks and periodically recall the school and university curriculum

7. Go in for sports! Regular physical activity before and after gray hair really saves you from dementia.

8. Train your memory often, forcing yourself to remember verses that you once knew by heart, dance steps, programs that you learned at the institute, phone numbers of old friends and much more - everything you can remember.

9. Break habits and rituals. The more the next day differs from the previous one, the less likely you are to "smoke" and come to dementia. Drive to work on different streets, give up the habit of ordering the same dishes, do what you have never been able to do