The 4 Ways Your Mind Learns & How To Strengthen Your Focus, Memory & Attention

Practicing a new skill increases the density of your myelin—the white matter in your brain that helps improve performance on a number of tasks. Additionally, learning new skills stimulates neurons in the brain, which forms more neural pathways and allows electrical impulses to travel faster across them.

A British research study showed that being bored, which occurs when you don't learn new things very often, can be dangerous to your health. People in the study who reported being bored over a long period of time had heart disease rates more than twice as high as those who didn't report boredom.

Once you stop learning, you start dying.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.