Neuroplasticity does not seem to slow down nearly as much for older adults who have been making demands on their brains to think differently and rewire for many years. If you’re involved in the creative arts—painting, sculpture, architecture, dance, writing, music, and other forms of creativity—you’ve been exercising your brain, pushing your brain, in interesting ways all along because every project you undertake requires new adaptations, some way of looking at the world differently, and then acting on it. And it’s not limited to the creative arts—any job or hobby that requires you to interact
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