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Some of the things that affect your intellectual potential. Discover them!

We generally assume that intelligence is a factor of nature, but there are many factors that can increase or decrease our intellectual potential. Do you want to know a little more? Here we go!

Things that affect your intellectual potential.Discover them!

Psychologists have long known that our genes play a role in our intelligence , and that its influence increases as we get older.

In kindergarten, genes matter very little. What matters most is if your parents talk to you, they read you stories, and they practice simple things like counting numbers with you. At this stage, genes contribute 20% to our intellectual potential.

As we begin to grow and think for ourselves, the influence of our parents is declining; We spend more time in school and our brain begins to develop more due to extra stimulation. In addition, our mind drives us to look for hobbies that are intellectually more demanding; join a reading club, an advanced math class, language classes...to name a few.

It doesn't matter if you're born or not with great intelligence ; Know some factors that can help you be more or less:

The work you do

Our intellectual potential is malleable throughout our lives, and something that can help us improve it or not is also the career we choose ; jobs that are mentally more demanding, keep the brain active for longer and therefore, also healthier.

Some of the things that affect your intellectual potential. Discover them!

The couple you choose

If you marry or pair with someone who is intellectually challenging, will introduce you to a world of opinions and ideas that will make your life much more interesting and that your brain does not become lazy, because it will always be stimulated by your side.

Some of the things that affect your intellectual potential. Discover them!

If your partner is a person who motivates you to be better and helps you achieve it, it is someone who is really worthwhile and positively contributes to your life.

The demands of society we live in

The world we live in leads us ce to think in a certain way thanks to the dependence on technology. Today we must learn to think about hierarchies, symbols, follow rules and analogies. Our thinking must be somewhat abstract and gradually This has been raising our intellectual potential.

Some of the things that affect your intellectual potential. Discover them!

Although this does not mean that we have much more mental power, these advances are significant for our society and allow us to reflect real changes in thinking.

The education of our parents

Having educated parents, whose language is rich and diverse, can be one of the factors that helps to give a boost to the intellectual potential even if by genetics this could be less.

Some of the things that affect your intellectual potential. Discover them!

At the same time, the opposite may happen; a person with a high IQ can be dragged by those who are close and who do not help her to progress.

Lifestyle

Physical exercise helps our brain function better, since stress is released and blood is oxygenated , and a diet balanced and healthy allows our body and mind to function better.

Some of the things that affect your intellectual potential. Discover them!

Get enough sleep, don't smoke, consume alcohol or tobacco, are factors that help our neurons stay healthy. Do the opposite reduces our ability to concentrate and memorization.

In short, we all have the power to develop our intelligence and intellectual power .Our current circumstances are much more important than our past.Whenever we want progress ; we can look for it and achieve it, in any area of ​​our life.

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