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To get the best performance out of your brain, you should bear in mind what modern neuroscience has taught us are the rules of the game. Your brain will physically rewire the connections between brain areas involved in any regularly used mental ability so that the interactions between them are:

 Faster

 Stronger

 More efficient

To improve your skill you must take care to perform the desired mental function:

 Regularly (ideally daily)

 Intensively (tackle challenges that stretch your abilities)

 Over long periods of time (keep up the training over many weeks)

This essentially describes what is popularly described these days as “brain training.” It might sound terribly impressive and you might even have been misled into thinking that you need some special kit to do it properly, but that really isn't strictly necessary.

With a whole bunch of useful brain teasers in an easily portable package, brain training applications on various devices could make brain training more convenient. This convenience might even improve your devotion to self‐improvement. Market‐leading companies may well have millions of subscribers for their particular games, but popularity doesn't guarantee effectiveness. Just remember that you are training your brain whenever you engage in anything that taxes your grey matter regularly, intensively and over long periods of time.