No Limits: The Art and Science of High Performance

by Mukesh Bansal

As we established earlier, the mind works on pretty much the same principle as the body, i.e. ‘use it or lose it’. This principle can be effectively leveraged to maintain peak brain performance throughout adult life including old age. If we regularly perform mental activities that challenge the mind, they will keep reconfiguring the brain’s circuitry to meet the new challenge. If you challenge yourself with Sudoku puzzles, crosswords or cognitive enhancement games on apps like Lumosity, you are challenging your mind to process new information and build the neural circuits to ace the challenge. Similar effects are at play whenever you read a book as it activates your imagination and brain circuits to process and store the new information. There are many ways to stimulate your brain and most of these tools are readily accessible. If you have a sharp, fine-tuned mind between your ears, there is no limit to how much you can boost your performance. No one has yet come up with a theoretical limit to what our minds are capable of doing. This is a gift that just keeps on giving, provided that you nurture and challenge it the right way.