Exercise Your Brain, Improve Your IQ - Dan Hurley

Similar to spending months in a gym and improving our overall physical fitness, we can train our brains and improve our IQ, and not simply just prepare for tests by acquiring knowledge. Such is the claim explored by Dan Hurley in his new book, Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power. Hurley also explains that, like muscles that have been allowed to atrophy, if we don’t regularly exercise our brains, we’ll drop IQ points just as quickly as we gained them. “It’s known that if you want to lower someone’s IQ, put them in solitary confinement for 6 months. And those people come out traumatized, but they’re losing IQ because they’re not interacting… (The brain) is designed to engage closely with the world about it.”