How to grow your brain

Short video going over the idea backed by research that your brain really is like a muscle: the more you use it, the stronger it gets.
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Our brain is literally learning about our brain

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haha

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Lol

[@2137xd]

Firing synapses learn about firing synapses

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It's incognitive

[@2137xd]

@@akhilkc2190 lol

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This guy has taught me more than i learned in school times.

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@@SomeRandomGtaDude-zl3us which research proved that

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@@mfaraday4044 according to 2nd law of faraday

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Legit

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Yeah true

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watched like a few i caant ageree more

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This motivates me to solve more math problems

[@lonetabii9735]

Me: more physics and organic problems 😂

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please do

[@hmmmno5926]

سيم

[@abhithecoaster4118]

guess i will play chess

[@trisha4823]

@@abhithecoaster4118 good idea

[@bgbzero]

This is very true. I was always one of those at the bottom of our class and of course becoming one made me question my capabilities and so on. I didn't want to stay like that forever. So I always studied, read books, and answered puzzles. I did anything that would make my brain "work". It was like a training for my brain. And so every semester I saw my progress until I reached the top. I was really happy I achieved such. And now it's so easy and fast for me to analyze and memorize.

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

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Keep it up.

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Danggg from bottom to top that's cool

[@wardan98]

Can you recommend some such games which increased your intelligence??

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same here bro :)

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Please Do Not Stop Making These VIds! You just revive, inspire and gave hope to a student who was planning to drop Computer Science major.. Thank you.

[@TheKrish207]

Jacob Tran dont give up :) everything is logical. Faced a similar dilemma when I opted for a Masters in computer science after graduating from electronics background.

[@jacobtran4010]

TheKrish207 EE background.. you must be really smart or work really hard o.o

[@robinhermans3247]

Getting things wrong is the most important thing in the process of learning, you learn from mistakes not from things you get right.

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Jacob Tran don't give up because you're highly favored by God

[@ThatoGee]

Hey Jacob! How's it going so far? 😊

[@thorulfscottson9914]

"If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't." Excellent video, nonetheless.

[@mfaraday4044]

Smart comment

[@PhantomAyz]

But we could understand our brain if we got all the facts that we need

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Old.

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@@jozasfrogas2915 Relevant.

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@@jozasfrogas2915 Facts are facts, independent of time.

[@ben315to405thenstop]

So failing my classes is better then cheating

[@islulison]

Depends why you're failing. Are you even trying or just gave up.

[@ben315to405thenstop]

you kind of give up trying when your teachers suck at teaching are your so behind in your work its better to cut your losses short at that point and learn what you can

[@ben315to405thenstop]

at least my brain grows if i try hard enough

[@devvv4616]

then dont go to class and read on your own. much harder that way but your brain grows more. just go the teacher when you have questions about what you studied on your own

[@War_lord_K2]

Random this is spot on.

[@sakinamoawia]

That's why they say active recall (flashcards) is better than rereading your notes for exams

[@kingj6891]

Do you use anki?

[@sakinamoawia]

@@kingj6891 I've heard about it but I didn't try it

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Ali Abdaal comes to mind

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@@kingj6891 I do, it’s great.

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Everyday excercise and reading books

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Three years ago i used to listen to him a lot...and lost track of it since then,and now hearing his voice again makes me feels so good and nostalgic😊

[@samirkhan-2015]

When you get something wrong, when you challenge your brain, when you review why you got it wrong, when you really process that feedback, that's when your brain grows the most

[@Am4d3usM0z4rt]

What about the loss of IQ due to brain damage? TBI or stroke sufferers may improve their discognitive symptoms significantly through intensive therapy, however their cognitive functions almost never return fully to pre-trauma levels. It seems to be generally accepted that most kinds of brain damage are permanent.

[@AnonymousAlien2099]

I have had 3+ severe brain concussions in the past, yet I am alive without any single neuron getting damaged. It doesn't affect your IQ at all, though in some cases, it may affect your memory/speech/body language.

[@jerryblizzard9363]

Am4d3usM0z4rt I had a TBI in 1994, plus many attempts to kill me since then. My frontal lobe appeared like scrambled eggs. My IQ was tested in 1993 at 128. When retested in 2008 my IQ was 139. A person can repair the faulty neuro synapses within his own head. I have done so! I will not explain how to do it for free online though. Also in 2008 I received my MA - Transpersonal Psychology. And was granted my PhD - Theology. Happiness comes from within and so does healing of mind, body, and spirit.

[@rossturchyn253]

"A person can repair faulty neuro synapses within his own head." ~"love IS the answer." Ridiculous as cliche but devotions (exactly like Yoga or a Biblical devotion) of love increase circulation while reducing edema, swelling, and cortisol production. That last is like the neurotransmitter of stress (hate, say, or anxiety) not only decreasing learning ability during stress but reducing production of Human Growth Hormone (the cellular repairs your body makes at night from REM sleep) participating directly in PTSD - which is a physical hardening of the Amygdalla or emotional switching center of your brain. When you see red, makes me wonder just what we are seeing!?! All you have to be able to do is focus with your complete being - far beyond how much you want it or hate it, you have to devote yourself to it, like you want to cherish that thing into marrying you. If Transpersonal Psychology and Theology can focus your devotion then they can be as effective or more than left/right channel syncopated music tracks at 120-220 beats a minute, or Tetris the video game - both practices show positive results in neural plasticity and so neuro-genesis. Interesting that marijuana is 1 of 5 biochemical compounds to have been found that participate in neural plasticity. "Continuous learning keeps you young" is a quote from the Centenarian Study (the Okinawan components) of populations who live over 100 years. Memories are tagged to specific locations (cells) so the tape, or access to it, does get scrambled - but repairs occur through the surrounding areas to link those aptitudes back to function. Consistently the comment is the person is "more" than they were before - because afterwards they "CAN" have corresponding aptitude, but with greater "depth of perspective" because the adaptive growth pathway now involves more cells. We are a collection of organic elastic bands - if you work them they maintain and rebuild their function. And that is where the whole process becomes more like art than science because how many scientists will focus on devotions to love? (but we Do have scientific studies on Tetris...) ~you just got to want it beyond anything you have ever wanted in your life before - because in leveraging your own brains cellular growth, you have to grow beyond anything you ever were before.

[@2137xd]

@@aliving17 its savantisn pretty rare its like mega plasticity

[@JaiMahadevv27]

@@AnonymousAlien2099 Not a single neuron was damaged? How could you possibly know that? Perhaps you suffered much more cognitive decline as a result of these conditions than you care to admit.

[@ahgoon69er]

this video needs to go viral

[@muhammadumerprogrammer5488]

"My brain is telling me to grow him. and he has hypnotised me to watch this video" regards "Brain".

[@EpistemicPolymath]

I love this area of research. If I went into medical research this is where I would love to be. This kind of research changed my life. It made me start to love learning because I know my brain is loving every minute of it. Thank you for an awesome video. Khan Academy is awesome, teaching others is a great way to increase neural activity within yourself, but at the same time he is helping do that for others as well. Awesomeness!

[@Piercingthesky1]

I’m so thankful for Khan and his team. His website is incredibly amazing for learning. I really wish we help more with our donations and grow the number of courses further

[@humi8ni]

So the brain grows when we're struggling with things. Does the "thing" have to be something specific? Like math? or science? Logical reasoning? Literature? Art? Music? and what's the effect of stronger connectedness between neurons? Do we get smarter or just think faster? or maybe do better at the things we're struggling with? This should be an hour-long video, I was just getting interested and suddenly the video ended...

[@OLBICHL]

Yeah, I thought the same! ^...^ Well listening to music like Adagio & Fuge (WAM) can stimulate your brain positively... yet, it would be best you fetch your guitar from the basement and rock all day XDDD Watching Khan Academy makes you smarter as well ;-)

[@RaaynML]

Not necessarily struggling. Cognitive thinking strengthens the brain, practicing a musical instrument, learning math/solving a complex problem, etc, things like that.

[@OLBICHL]

ShadowMassacr13 Fail that one note 3 times, I would start struggling XD

[@MynamedidntFitDonkey]

long story short,the more you use your brain the smarter you get,pretty logical

[@humi8ni]

The short story couldn't satisfy my curiosity, I was hoping the video to show more details and explanations. I don't know, maybe this video is intended to be 4 minutes, so it would inspire people's interests to learn more about this topic. If so, they totally got me lol I spent my last night searching and reading papers because of this video.

[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

Short video going over the idea backed by research that your brain really is like a muscle: the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

[@Zohirul-Jewel]

This is the best Khan Academy video EVER. When I was a teen I would often complain about my assignments being to hard for me, then one day my math teacher tolled me "I can give you something easy, something you already know how to do but you wouldn't learn anything.

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Shoutout to Khan Academy, thank you so much!! And a shoutout to everyone else around the world who's bunkering down during this historic time! We can do this!!

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Sal and like two other people know how to properly explain stuff to dummies like me. Thank you sir for years of your free support, God bless and keep you and your crew of masters at the academy. Peace

[@deltaexplorer47]

This is VERY ENCOURAGING !! THANK YOU !!

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This has stopped my self doubt...thank you khan academy

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U r the best teacher in my life!😄

[@alphadan1225]

I think I used this approach before in Algebra classes. It worked.

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Thank you so much for your math videos and reminding us not to give up. It means the world to me!

[@ashimishra215]

I feel that the Growth Mindset is the most joyful mindset. I thank Khan Academy for introducing me to this feeling and knowledge that my birth abilities don't limit the knowledge and skills I can work to get during this life :)

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Everything in this video is on point. This is the best video I've watched so far

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I wonder how come this guys knows about almost everything!!

[@schoolgoingadult3623]

Thanks this is a amazing video. I love doing hard things which make me frustrated but now I know why I have gotten better in the topic in which I was a bit bad at. Again thanks.

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This guy is truly awesome & what he said was absolutely inspirational & a100% geniune!

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Thank u so much sir 🙏🏻 For providing such basic and beautiful teaching student like us who want to learn from home without fee and coaching

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this is the kind of tutorial that I like to watch

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Favorited. This video means so much to me.

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I just recently found this channel and istg THIA IS GOLD!! ✨ Loveee these vids

[@life42theuniverse]

4:00 and processing the feedback happens during sleep so when you are having those deep challenging problems have a nap.

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Lol

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I can't believe I was ballsy enough to send this to my sister but hey you gotta help someone if they need it-

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Is your sister smarter now?

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Pain is the feeling u feel when growth is coming closer and closer

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These types of videos make me believe that i can learn anything faster than i believe.

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This video said that mode you use brain more you develop. Thank you to making such video for us it means a lot.

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This guy is awesome teacher...

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What A MIND-BLOWING VIDEO

[@derangedpsychopath]

To develop a brain we must struggles with learning and make failures. Video is pretty interesting. Thank you for knowledge .

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Love this. Thanks.

[@nightevil2101]

On the one hand, it’s encouraging information, that learning new things, solving problems and “training” your brains makes you smarter On the other hand, it would be good to know, how exactly we should train it.

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this is what exactly i am search for thank you!

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Very easy way of teaching. I like so much

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This video really gave me the motivation to finish my chem hw

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wow.. This is really inspiring.. Thank YOU..

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i hope you make a series of videos like this

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This gives me so much comfort as I am struggling with my study.. haha thank you so much..!

[@probablynotsatanic66]

Yes, there are variations in levels of innate talent, IQ, and such. There is so much variation in every population that it's simply not reasonable to say that we all have the same capacity. However, there is variation in height and it's a well-known fact that proper diet, exercise, and sleep can significantly increase your potential height. Occasionally, there are some incredibly tall 8'5" giants who were basically genetic accidents. There are some freakishly smart people in this world, but there are many factors that can contribute to the growth of intelligence as well. An analogy: Imagine a water bottle standing next to a bathtub. The bathtub can obviously hold more water. But are you going to fill the water bottle up all the way anyway? Of course you are! Look, most of us aren't going to be as smart as Gauss or Newton in our lifetime in the way that a normal-capacity bottle is never going to be as full as a bathtub filled with water. But why keep the bottle empty? It has a capacity, so fill it! And also, don't assume that the bathtub doesn't need water. Besides, why compare yourself to the intellectual giants? Be the best that YOU can. It's cheesy, but what's the point in comparing yourself to the one-in-a-billion geniuses? What will that accomplish? God knows that I would feel absolutely inadequate if I felt obligated to be the next Euler. Just keep doin' your thang, man. Your brain is an amazing organ, and never doubt that.

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probablynotsatanic66 Well said❤️💯

[@nirv2796]

You never know if you could try to be your own person instead of trying to live in the shadows of other, completely bypassing this reality in an effort for self respect

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This is very well written and needs more attention.

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This is so great!!! Thanks.

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This channel deserve billion subscriber. But alas the more subscriber has pewdee pie. This can be a strong messege that what we are learning. Thanks khanshab for the amazing platform!!! God bless you!!!

[@aakashtiwari7471]

That's really quite interesting that our brain 🧠 is growing, when we struggle the most! Now, this thought don't let me feel sad anymore, when I'm struggling 🌀

[@Dannnneh]

I thought the fact that the more you use your brain for a specific task the better it becomes at it, but it's actually pretty motivational that the more your brain struggles the more it evolves.

[@BueTAnderbeest]

Yeah that's true, i mean in order to learn anything you pretty much need to struggle as part of the process. No one becomes a master at something (e.g. becoming a doctor, lawyer, violinist, ballerina) after a few months, it takes years of education/practice, and during those years some things won't be easy, you'll learn skill through pushing through the difficulties. I think the reason why many people think they have a cap on learning something is because they give up at the struggle stage. For example, i tried learning PHP (a computer language). I gave up after a few days, but after a few months, i ended up reading a certain book which explained it in a way that i just 'got it', and it' makes a lot more sense now! So i think that people can do pretty much anything if they practice hard enough and never give up (but still, some do just have natural talent, and i guess don't go through the 'struggle phase' as much). It's all about self-belief , dedication and determination i think! ")

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***** can I know that book please, because I just started my php class and I am struggling.

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***** can I know that book please, because I just started my php class and I am struggling.

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You are brilliantly amazing 🤩🧠🙌🏻💪🏻🙏🏻!

[@richardhoffman817]

Khan Academy is FANTASTIC! THAT BEING SAID...one very significant point of consideration! I'm not so sure getting the answer wrong or making mistakes makes the brain grow more. I think its more a factor of how much you struggle regardless if you get the answer wrong or right, or if you make a mistake, don't make a mistake. However, I don't think you get "smarter" unless you can verify you correctness and/or make verified corrections as needed. Hopefully these corrections can be made in a timely manner to avoid misconceptions and "learned helplessness". The pit is a good place to be if you can pull yourself out, even if you need some help getting out. It is no place to live or visit for an unnecessary extended period of time.

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Nicely explained...with inspiration also 😃

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This guy is knowledge.

[@tumpaganguly253]

After watching this video I think one of the many ways to grow your brain (make it smarter) is solving tougher mathematical problems.

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Thank you so much !

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Cheers and thanks to Sal!

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this video changed my mindset

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I m from kashmir and your videos and your app. is so helpful .Thanks a lot

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I Wish if we were taught this way especially about brain at school to unlock more creativity in a younger age kudos to the team for making great videos like this❤

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"Everything in universe decreases as we use it except your intelligence . The more you use it , the more you develop it . "

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I made so many mistakes, that I'm wise now. 🙂 and Mr. Khan, Thank You!

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THANKYOU!! So on time

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I just like your voice when i hear it i know im gonna understand what im gonna watch

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Education is what remains after one forgets what he learnt in school -Einstein

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On my way to improve my brain power, abilities. 7.12 PM,18 April 2023.

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