Oh Boy! The end-of-the-year top ten lists you hate so much. But wait. This one is different.
Top 10 Ways Your Brain Is Sabotaging You (and How to Beat It)
10. Knowing You Can Get Smarter Makes You ... Smarter
There's a way of thinking that goes that, since you didn't grow up with genius parents or Einstein's instinctive reasoning, you're only going to be so intellectually able throughout your life. But consider that when a group of college students were given a course that studied the ability to grow smarter and improve performance, they performed notably better in their further college studies than those students who were never taught such thinking. You can easily convince yourself that rigorous study can be a time sink, or let yourself believe in the brain's ability to adapt, and then actually adapt your own gray matter. And it kind of applies to the rest of this list, we'd hope.
(Go. Now - and read the whole article-->via LifeHacker)
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