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10 Effective Strategies to Sharpen Your Concentration

In today’s world of constant distraction, improving your concentration is a skill worth developing. The excellent news is focus and concentration are like muscles that can be strengthened with practice. By employing a few simple strategies, you can tune out diversions and hone your ability to focus. 10 proven techniques to boost your concentration and ...

Viena Abdon

A neatly organized work space.

Unleash Your Mental Potential: 9 Benefits of Sudoku

Sudoku has captured the hearts and minds of many worldwide for almost four decades. It’s a short form of a longer Japanese phrase “Sūji wa dokushin ni kagiru,” which roughly translates as “the digits are limited to one occurrence.” Its simple rules and intriguing challenges make it a great pastime. Whether you are an adult ...

Nathan Machoka

A Sudoku puzzle.

How to Enter Hyperfocus: The Best Way to Achieve a Highly Productive Lifestyle

Remember when you were fully engrossed with doing something and didn’t care about anything else in the world? That’s hyperfocus, and this article will teach you how to achieve it at will. What is hyperfocus? Hyperfocus, broadly and anecdotally speaking, is a phenomenon that reflects one’s complete absorption in a task to a point where a ...

Mike West

Clarity, focus, and concentration.

Why You Should Encourage Children to Learn Musical Instruments

Too often, parents and school administrators view learning to play musical instruments much the way they do most arts education — as a supplemental or “optional” subject that helps to make students more well-rounded, but not as an essential component in school curricula. However, studies show that studying music not only supports good intellectual development ...

Armin Auctor

A child playing the piano.

How Plants Benefit Health

I learned early on how plants benefit health. I can still picture it. It was like walking into my favorite fairy tale and The Jungle Book all rolled into one, only I got to be a part of the story. They were everywhere and in every shape and size: hanging, sitting, short, tall, pointed, round, and ...

Tatiana Denning

Herb plant and a small pitcher on a windowsill.

Humans Have Lower Attention Spans Than Goldfish

Human beings typically have short attention spans. They might focus on a task for a few minutes before their mind wanders off. In this digital age, attention spans have reduced further. For areas like education, huge changes have to be implemented to sync the teaching methodology with a student’s attention span so that they get ...

Armin Auctor

Goldfish in an aquarium.

6 Foods That Can Boost Your Brainpower

Scientists have discovered that the human brain has the ability to adapt. To improve memory and boost your brainpower, with the right diet, your brain can form new neural pathways, alter existing connections, and react in new ways, all of which help improve memory and boost brainpower. Foods that can boost your brainpower and improve ...

Audrey Wang