you go to the gym how do we make our muscles bigger we have to place it under stress your brain is the same if you can place your brain under stress stressful situations whether albe it through learning learning a new task anything that is actually going to send hortic stress a good stress to your brain to push further in a specific area is going to be good for it remember our brain is highly adaptable and every area is accounted for and the Brain kind of takes the theory of use it or lose it you know when somebody retires because they're not utilizing every aspect of their brain they're not learning they're not thinking as much they're not placing their brain under stress so your brain is like okay use it or lose it