The Healthy Brain Podcast Challenge Your Brain and Boost Your Brain Skills
Sep 10, 2025
Discover the importance of challenging your brain to maintain cognitive function and resilience. Explore diverse activities that can enhance your memory, attention, and reasoning skills. Get ready for the Fall Reset Challenge, with weekly motivation, yoga classes, and guided meditations. Learn practical techniques and tools to boost your mental abilities every day. Engage in brain games and mindfulness strategies to elevate your mental fitness!
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Build Cognitive Reserve And Resilience
- Challenging your brain builds cognitive resilience, flexibility, and reserve.
- These buffers help protect brain and physical health under stress.
Train Multiple Core Brain Skills
- Work a variety of cognitive skills: memory, attention, visual spatial, language, and executive functions.
- Include mental math and deductive reasoning to broaden your brain challenge.
Practice The Attention Hierarchy
- Target different types of attention: sustained, selective, alternating, and divided.
- Practice activities that train filtering distractions and maintaining focus.