Hobbies are entertaining and they can help us get smarter according to new neuroscience findings. In the past, we have been advised that we are born with some degree of intelligence and the best we could do was to live up to that potential. However, Christina Baldassarre in her article “7 Hobbies That Make You Smarter” explains how leisure activities can make us smarter. 

7 Hobbies Science Says Will Make You Smarter

We now know that by learning new skills the brain creates new neural pathways that make it work faster and better. Playing music helps with creativity, analytical skills, language, math, fine motor skills and more. What playing musical instruments does that other activities don’t is strengthen the corpus callosum that links the hemispheres of the brain by creating new connections. Read more…

The article inspires us to pick up new skills and to have fun while learning.