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Regardless of one’s level of education or professional status, self-care in the form of pursuing a passion and learning a new skill can greatly improve one’s cognitive function. This makes self-care a vital part of growing in our ever-changing age of education. Self-care will allow one to become more proactive rather than passive. It will make one more committed to performing a demanding cognitive task. And it will give the illusion that one is stronger and more capable, increasing one’s confidence and self-esteem.

Start doing some of the cognitive activities listed below now in order to increase your level of cognitive fitness. Use them to argue with your friends, critique the fashion choices of your peers, debate topics of critical importance, talk about important issues with your friends, understand the decisions that affect our daily lives, and so on. Do a lot of these kinds of cognitive activities. As you improve your cognition, you will do it more naturally and better, making it easier and more enjoyable to do more. Do things that increase your ability to learn new things, so that you can learn as much as possible, and to be more committed to being the best teacher that you can be. That’s the way to become cognitively competent – to develop self-esteem and confidence. That is what a mature person does. It’s true in every age and in every context.

As you do cognitive activities, you will learn to have quick, focused, cognitive responses to situations that you face. It’s easy to make errors in judgment. But instead of making mistakes and dwelling on them, you will learn to quickly reorient yourself to another scenario that works for the current situation. If you feel that you have an error that needs explaining, you’ll be able to come up with a way to explain it without repeating the mistake in a second set of judgments. As you do this more often, it will become easier to explain the precise reasons for your decisions. You’ll be able to explain to others why you made the choice that you did. And you’ll be able to express those reasons clearly and persuasively. When someone asks you for a judgment on a particular topic, you’ll have an answer that you can give that will be both rational and coherent.

Start Doing Some Cognitive Activities Now

There is so much that you can learn to do that will improve your cognitive functioning, all of which need to be done in order to become cognitively competent. To name a few of them:

Improve your language skills, to improve your cognitive performance.

Learn to do more reasoning.

Read, learn, debate, debate, write, argue, explain.

Choose a wide variety of cognitive activities.

Use the skills that you have learned from reading, talking, debating, and explaining to be proactive and to learn more things. You will have to engage in conversation more often and more deeply. You will need to explain a lot of things to others, whether you want to or not. You will have to respond to questions, criticisms, statements, ideas, statements of facts, questions, and comments. You will need to reason things out and explain the things that you have learned.

Become engaged in intellectual discourse.

Every time you find yourself thinking about something, thinking of someone else, worrying about someone else, speaking about someone else, debating someone else, thinking about someone else, studying something about someone else.

Experts note that recent meta-analyses have shown that cognitive training on a goal-setting task (such as cognitive training) showed no benefit in reducing functional decline, but this was based on “pure tasks” that were scored without effort or cognitive judgement.

One of the reasons the debates are so prevalent is that overall “decision-making is often portrayed as a purely cognitive activity,” explains Michael Kraus, director of the Neurocognitive Behavioural Research Centre in London.

“Therefore, it often seems a task like that cannot be improved, but the reality is that it can and does, and there are situations where it can be improved even further,” he says.

Psychologists do not doubt that improving self-control, managing response complexity, and leveraging cognitive strategies can lead to positive results for those with cognitive decline. But they also believe the criteria for enhancing cognitive functioning are not so well understood that they can be applied to everyday situations and tasks.