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amazon.comlanguage or taking up a new sport. In general, we get the best neurological workout by pushing our limits. The neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, whose most recent book is Successful Aging, spells it out: “If you’re just thinking the same thoughts and doing the same things you always did, it doesn’t force the brain to keep making new pathways available
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... See moreIf that’s too much, start with one of these brain-boosting changes. Once that change becomes a habit, add another and then another.