FITNESS & HEALTH

4 Exercises You Can Do To Keep Your Mind Sharp And Focused

Just like your body muscles, your brain muscles need to be trained as well

Mind | Body | Soul
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6 min readJan 22, 2020

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When I was younger, people called me a blockhead of idiocy sitting on top of an athlete’s body. To be fair, it was kinda true. I wasn’t really an academic boy. I didn’t ace my exams as the smarter kids did. I only enjoyed physical sports and excelled in them.

I took pride in how athletic I was back then. I was young, fit, had a good enough looking body and thought to myself that as long as I keep active, I’ll keep my healthy body for a long long time. I didn’t care so much that I wasn’t that smart and didn’t bother to think of ways to stimulate my brain.

I wish I could have told myself back then that although it is possible, it wasn’t going to be easy.

True enough, once I started working full time in a 9–5 job, held more responsibilities, it wasn’t as easy to keep in shape. Combine that with the crazy appetite I built up over the…

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Mind | Body | Soul
Mind | Body | Soul

Published in Mind | Body | Soul

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Benny Lim
Benny Lim

Written by Benny Lim

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