How do I boost my concentration and maximally utilize my brain?

How do I boost my concentration and maximally utilize my brain?

Keep your body in top shape. Your brain needs oxygen and a fit and healthy immune system just like the rest of your body. Stay fit and your mind will stay fit.

Drink a lot of water & eat healthy. 20% of what you put into your body gets used by the brain, even though it only weighs about 2% of your body-weight it uses 20% of the energy.

Make more connections. You cannot build more neurons but you can make more connections with existing neurons. This means you need to link as many pieces of information as you can to stabilize new information in your brain-network.

Use your senses as triggers. When you work/study in the same location, listening to the same music or smelling the same things you will have an easier time remembering what you did the next time because your senses link up with information very well.

Practice Concentration. Removing all the distractions and then working for as long as you can, always pushing yourself to work a little bit longer each day will get you practiced in staying concentrated for longer periods of time.

Get uncomfortable. Solve the problem. Go outside your comfort zone and then solve the situation. Example: Talk to 5 strangers a day. You will get into some cringy conversations → that is your problem to solve! This will get you to think outside your box and in new ways, strengthening your creative problem-solving capabilities.

Read more. The more information you have the easier it is to solve new problems. Very intelligent people are intelligent not because they know one detail very in depth, but instead because they know that one detail and everything surrounding it, how it interacts with other pieces of information, what it does in certain situations, etc.

One task at a time. Your brain cannot multi-task. Multi-tasking is switching between two different tasks rapidly, but you cannot do two at the same time. Maximize the utility of your brain by doing one thing at a time.